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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Plums (part 1).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purpose does the castle now serve?
(a) It is an auto repair shop.
(b) It is a youth hostel.
(c) It is an ice cream shop.
(d) It is a five-star restaurant.

2. Who works in a supermarket?
(a) Sissie's mother.
(b) Marija's husband.
(c) Indians whom Marija knows.
(d) Sissie and the other volunteers.

3. What does "das Schwartze Mädchen" mean?
(a) The lovely maiden.
(b) The Indian girl.
(c) The black girl.
(d) The ugly maiden.

4. What does the novel liken to arguing with another black person?
(a) A chess game.
(b) Cribbage.
(c) Russian roullete
(d) A game of solitaire.

5. Where does Sissie fly to?
(a) Lagos.
(b) Johannesburg.
(c) Cotonou.
(d) Accra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sissie take her plane from?

2. What is Sammy?

3. With whom does the airplane hostess assume that Sissie is travelling?

4. What does the Indian from Göttingen tell Sissie about himself and her?

5. What does the "academic-pseudo-intellectual version" (6) talk about?

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