How Beautiful We Were Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 29:

1.

Why don't the villagers talk to Sahel about the fact that Thula's letters are causing the village boys to act violently against the Pexton? (from Chapter 7 - 8)

Sahel is under Sonni's protection.

They don't know about the letters.

Sahel shares with them the money Thula sends.

They believe they will be cursed by the Spirit.

2.

Why does Woja Beki hide the kidnapped Pexton representatives from the soldiers? (from Chapters 3 - 4)

Because he doesn't know about the kidnapping.

Because he is on the side of the village.

Because the Pexton representatives told him to.

Because the villagers force him to.

3.

Why are the villagers afraid to touch Konga? (from Chapters 1 - 2)

They believe they will be cursed if they touch a madman.

Woja Beki has instructed everyone in the village to leave him alone.

The Pexton representatives prohibit them from touching him.

Konga is ill with a transmittable disease.

4.

What happens to Kosawa in the end? (from Chapter 9 - 11)

Slowly, the villagers rehabilitate the land with the help of American ecologists.

The villagers abandon it and it becomes a ghost town.

The village becomes hidden from view of Pexton under the protection of the leopard.

His Excellency burns it to the ground and Pexton drills in the former village square.

5.

Why does Yaya decide to go back to her husband's home village? (from Chapter 7 - 8)

To tend her husband's grave.

To escape the soldiers.

To cure her illness.

To free Sahel to move to Bézam.

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