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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is Lee’s main goal in visiting Hi-Fly Haircuttery & Designs Ltd.? (from Part 3: The Mothers)

He wants to show his son Joseph a different side of Lusaka.

He wants to expose the salon as a front for sex work.

He wants to take blood and saliva samples from the workers there in his search for an HIV vaccine.

He wants to have sex with Sylvia.

2.

Who presses the button that releases the Moskeetoze to block the dam? (from Part 5: The Dam)

Mai.

Joseph.

Naila.

Jacob.

3.

How is Victoria Falls related to the Nile River? (from Part 1: The Falls)

Victoria Falls is the end of the Nile.

Victoria Falls is the Nile’s only source.

Victoria Falls is not connected to the Nile.

Victoria Falls is one of the Nile’s two sources.

4.

Who are the plural first person narrators who conclude the first section? (from Part 1: The Falls)

An unspecified swarm, most likely of mosquitoes.

An erhu.

A chorus of human singers.

Percy speaking in the royal we.

5.

What happens to the Moskeetoze at the end of the novel? (from Part 5: The Dam)

They take over Zambia and destroy all human life after the fall of the Kariba Dam.

They are destroyed by the fall of the Kariba Dam and resulting loss of power in Zambia.

They join up with the biological mosquitos and become indistinguishable from the biological swarm.

They are revealed to have been nothing but a metaphor for colonialism in Zambia.

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