View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tracey frustrated about "adding value" to in Chapter 20?
(a) Her land.
(b) The entire continent of Africa.
(c) Her employees.
(d) Her clients.

2. What does Leon tell Nyasha their children want in Chapter 13?
(a) A mother, not a workshop facilitator.
(b) To go back to Germany.
(c) New bicycles.
(d) To change schools.

3. What gift does Tambu bring for her father?
(a) Money.
(b) A shirt.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Gardening tools.

4. How do Elizabeth's male relatives greet Tambu when she goes to Elizabeth's house?
(a) They feed her and offer their forgiveness.
(b) They welcome her.
(c) They taunt, harass, and threaten her.
(d) They give her the silent treatment.

5. What does Tambu do with the gift her mother has sent her in Chapter 17?
(a) Scatters it across her house and then buries it in her garden.
(b) Eats it.
(c) Gives it away.
(d) Burns it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs a dress shop near Tambu's office?

2. Why does Tracey object to a particular newspaper in Chapter 20?

3. How does Tambu refer to Mai Moetsabi?

4. Why are the Swedish tourists in Chapter 22 disappointed with the breakfast?

5. What does Tracey decide to do about the mambo in Tambu's home village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What publication does Tracey say is not allowed in the office any longer, and why?

2. At the end of the novel, where is Tambu working and how does she feel about her situation?

3. What does Tambu try to do to smooth things over with Christine and Aunt Lucia in Chapter 21 that does not go over well?

4. What does Tambu realize she has forgotten to do concerning Nyasha in Chapter 15?

5. What happens to Mai Taka in Chapter 14 that Nyasha and Leon have to try to raise gas money for in order to help her?

6. How do Nyasha and Leon eventually dispel the tension between Mai Taka and Silence in Chapter 13?

7. What does Tracey Stevenson tell Tambu she would like Tambu to start anew for Green Jacaranda in Chapter 18?

8. What does Tracey ask Tambu to have her relatives and friends in the village do in Chapter 21 that Tambu is not comfortable with?

9. What is a major source of tension between Leon and Nyasha that comes to light in Chapter 13?

10. Who does Tambu bump into after the movie in Chapter 13, and how does she feel about it?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 800 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample