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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who works as a domestic employee for Nyasha?
(a) Mai Guru.
(b) Mai Anesu.
(c) Mai Taka.
(d) Mai Mainini.

3. Who does Widow Riley think Tambu is in Chapter 10?
(a) Her daughter Edie.
(b) Her niece Eileen.
(c) Her sister Ellen.
(d) Her mother Ellie.

4. Who taps on Tambu's window in the middle of the night in Chapter 6, asking to be let in?
(a) Nyasha.
(b) Mako.
(c) Tambu's mother.
(d) A woman Shine was once involved with.

5. What happens to Gertrude that sets off the mob's anger in Chapter 2?
(a) She berates the bus driver.
(b) She trips getting into the bus and embarrassingly exposes herself.
(c) She yells racial epithets at Tambu.
(d) She drops her money on the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tambu put in her tea in very large quantities in Chapter 3?

2. What does Tambu tell the stranger on the bus she does for a living in Chapter 2?

3. Who is Nyasha's daughter?

4. What does Tambu's letter to Nyasha say in Chapter 6?

5. What crime does Shine commit in Mai Manyanga's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who taps on Tambu's window in the middle of the night in Chapter 6?

2. Why are Bertha and Mako pleased that a woman is causing such commotion at the Widow Manyanga's house in Chapter 6?

3. Why is Mako so upset in Chapter 5?

4. Why does Christine come to Mai Manyanga's in Chapter 5?

5. What kind of creature does Tambu routinely find herself brushing off of herself in moments of tension or irritation?

6. What does the hostel matron, Mrs. May, try to help Tambu with in Chapter 1 and why?

7. What happens in Chapter 7 when Mai Manyanga invites her sons to her house to celebrate one of their birthdays?

8. What plan does Tambu hatch concerning Mai Manyanga's sons when she sees them visit the widow in Chapter 4?

9. What does Christine bring to give to Tambu from the village in Chapter 5?

10. Who does Tambu think she sees in the club in Chapter 7 and why does she react so belligerently to this idea?

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