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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Plums (part 2).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sissie, what do African students need to travel?
(a) Rich parents.
(b) Family abroad.
(c) Wanderlust.
(d) Luck.

2. On account of what do able-bodied fishermen disappear?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Hay Fever.
(d) Bird flu.

3. What does Sissie want to ask somebody?
(a) Whether Sissie will ever be able to work in Germany.
(b) Whether there is any hope for her and Marija.
(c) Why the entire world has had to pay so much, and is still paying, for some folks' unhappiness.
(d) Whether she can take Marija back to Africa.

4. What do the wives of the ministers and commissioners drive?
(a) Volkswagens.
(b) Mercedes-Benzes.
(c) Jaguars.
(d) BMWs.

5. What is the second course of the meal described in Part 2?
(a) Duck.
(b) Turducken.
(c) Chicken moriturus.
(d) Steak tips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marija do when Sissie shivers?

2. By what alone can man not live?

3. What does "Sissie" mean?

4. What does Marija tell Sissie is in Munich?

5. What does the novel say about African names?

(see the answer key)

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