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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 13 - 15).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman who knocks on Tambu's window in Chapter 6 end up doing?
(a) Shoving a letter under Shine's door.
(b) Stripping naked in the front yard and calling for Shine to come out.
(c) Threatening to hurt herself.
(d) Leaving a baby in a basket on the front stoop.

2. What is Part 3 of the book called?
(a) Ravenous.
(b) Reveling.
(c) Reckoning.
(d) Arriving.

3. What does Tambu do to Elizabeth in Chapter 8?
(a) Belittles her for answering wrong.
(b) Expels her.
(c) Fails her.
(d) Beats her savagely.

4. What does Tambu do when she has her visitors in Chapter 10?
(a) Cries copiously.
(b) Runs away from the mental health institution.
(c) Attacks one of her visitors.
(d) Sleeps through their visit.

5. What does Tambu do in response to the crowd's anger toward Gertrude?
(a) She defends Gertrude.
(b) She finds a man to help Gertrude.
(c) She closes the bus door on Gertrude.
(d) She picks up a rock and gets ready to throw it at Gertrude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine tell Tambu she is surprised about concerning Tambu in Chapter 10?

2. What does Tambu learn about Aunt Lucia that surprises her and makes her respect Aunt Lucia more in Chapter 12?

3. Where does Tambu attend school?

4. Where was Tambu's previous job that she gave up?

5. What does Leon tell Nyasha their children want in Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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