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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9, Pages 122-142.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Martha wonder about town?
(a) Whether the children went to school.
(b) What the house looked like.
(c) What the streets looked like.
(d) Whether Maureen told July what to do.

2. What is born within Maureen’s hut?
(a) A litter of kittens.
(b) Birds.
(c) Baby pigs.
(d) Puppies.

3. Why do Bam and Maureen continue to listen to the radio?
(a) They want to hear news of the uprisings.
(b) They want to hear their own language.
(c) They want to hear the rebels’ political stance.
(d) They miss music.

4. What happened to Nora’s husband?
(a) He was hired at the mines.
(b) He disappeared.
(c) He died.
(d) He left her.

5. What is a gumbagumba?
(a) A type of car.
(b) Travelling entertainment.
(c) An animal.
(d) A type of gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Royce continue to ask to do in Section 3?

2. Who cooked for the Smalls in Section 6?

3. What does Maureen understand about the question she asks July in Section 5 that puts him ill at ease?

4. Why do the blacks not kill the warthogs?

5. What has Maureen learned to make appropriately by Section 4?

(see the answer key)

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