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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: A Love Letter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sissie tell Marija is not sound?
(a) To watch so much television.
(b) For a woman to enjoy cooking for another woman.
(c) To be away from your husband so much.
(d) To have only one child.

2. How often does Marija visit Sissie?
(a) Every morning and evening.
(b) Every afternoon.
(c) Every morning.
(d) Once a week on Sunday.

3. According to the novel, what do Africans and Indians share?
(a) A common cuisine.
(b) A common heritage.
(c) A common language.
(d) A common religion.

4. What are the chairs in Marija's house like?
(a) Modernistic and made of artificial fiber.
(b) Old and unreliable.
(c) Old-fashioned and expensive.
(d) High-backed and fragile.

5. What does Sissie speculate is God's gift to man?
(a) Singing loudly.
(b) Having multiple wives.
(c) Taking pleasure in hurting.
(d) Watching football.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sissie ask the doctor from Göttingen?

2. What does the novel say about African names?

3. What does Marija give Sissie before her departure?

4. In what other city in Germany will Sissie stop?

5. Into what are beautiful black bodies turned?

(see the answer key)

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