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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert Suurhof tell Minke about beauty?
(a) Beauty is overrated.
(b) Beauty is mixed blood.
(c) Beauty is not personality.
(d) Beauty is European.

2. Why did Nyai's father sell her to work as a concubine?
(a) So he could get a job.
(b) He didn't like her.
(c) Her mother was jealous of her.
(d) For lots of money.

3. Where does Minke go at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The police station.
(c) School.
(d) The Mellema home.

4. What does the word nyai mean?
(a) First born.
(b) Heavenly woman.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Concubine.

5. What is this story about?
(a) Folktales.
(b) War.
(c) First love.
(d) Understanding roots.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Robert Suurhof offer to show Minke?

2. What does Annelies ask about the letters in Chapter 4?

3. What position did Jean Marais hold in the army?

4. What does Minke state the actual events are now combined with?

5. Who is Robert Suurhof?

(see the answer key)

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