View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 16 - 19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the questions the voice asks Tambu in Chapter 9?
(a) What the date is.
(b) Who she is spying for.
(c) How much money she makes.
(d) Where her mother is.

2. What does Nyasha tell her children to call Tambu?
(a) MaiTambu.
(b) Maiguru.
(c) MaininiTambu.
(d) Tambudzai.

3. What does Tambu start to help herself to in the beginning of Chapter 5 from Mai Manyanga?
(a) Mai Manyanga's clothes.
(b) Mai Manyanga's alcohol.
(c) Mai Manyanga's telephone.
(d) Mai Manyanga's vegetables.

4. What kinds of creatures does Tambu feel crawling over her in times of stress?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Ants.
(c) Flies.
(d) Mosquitos.

5. How does Tambu sarcastically toast Pedzi in Chapter 18?
(a) She calls her the glamours ghetto rat.
(b) She calls her Pedzi the famous.
(c) She calls her the queen of the ghetto.
(d) She calls her the genius from Ghana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tambu do to Elizabeth in Chapter 8?

2. What do Mai Manyanga's sons discuss among themselves in Chapter 4?

3. What injury does Tambu's sister sustain in the war?

4. Who is Tambu's hostel matron in Chapter 1?

5. How often do Tambu's niece and nephew visit her in her new home in Chapter 17?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 261 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample