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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "How They Lived," "My America," and "Writing on the Wall".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Darling describe Godknows's fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?
(a) "Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded."
(b) "If you eat a box of fortune cookies, anything is possible."
(c) "Your future will be happy and productive."
(d) "If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me."

2. What happens to the urine in the cup in "We Need New Names"?
(a) Darling drinks it.
(b) They use it as sterilizer.
(c) Chipo drinks it.
(d) Sbho drinks it.

3. When the children call out for the man that MaS'banda sent them to find in Shanghai, they learn that he has gone where in "Country-Game"?
(a) To Botswana.
(b) To South Africa.
(c) To the United States.
(d) To Zambia.

4. In "Darling on the Mountain," Darling compares the color of Mother of Bones's face to the color of what?
(a) Straw.
(b) The shacks.
(c) The sky.
(d) The mountain.

5. Whom does Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro compare the bereaved to in "For Real"?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Moses.
(c) Job.
(d) Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darling describe her own fortune cookie saying in "Country-Game"?

2. Who bursts into tears as the marchers come in and the children are harvesting guavas in "Blak Power"?

3. Who is the "fat black pig" from the passport office that several women slept with in order to leave Zimbabwe, according to the narrator in "How They Lived"?

4. Who discovers Darling and her friends when they are preparing to remove Chipo's stomach in "We Need New Names"?

5. How many faded suns are on the bedspread that Darling counts in "Darling on the Mountain"?

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