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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Into a Bad Dream.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final destination of the airplane on which Sissie travels?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Benin.

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

3. What does Sammy try to get Sissie to realize?
(a) That she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
(b) That she is lucky to be in Europe.
(c) That she needs to return to African as soon as possible.
(d) That he is very wealthy.

4. What does the narrative claim about a 'moderate' black person?
(a) He is very handsome.
(b) He is better educated.
(c) He is obsessed with wealth.
(d) He can only regurgitate what his master told him.

5. What does Sissie think that Sammy's voice sounds like?
(a) Harsh and cruel.
(b) Wet with longing.
(c) Soft and meek.
(d) High and feminine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Sammy?

4. Who orders breakfast for Sissie's group?

5. What does "das Schwartze Mädchen" mean?

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