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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. MaS'banda has gotten the children to come to Shanghai to find what man in "Country-Game"?

3. What is printed on the T-shirt that the woman wears who asks if she can photograph the children in "Hitting Budapest"?

4. Where does Sbho say she saw the television show "ER" in "We Need New Names"?

5. Where did MaDumane go to become a housemaid, according to the narrator in "We Need New Names"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro require to heal Darling's father?

2. What is ironic about the development that is being erected in “Country-Game”?

3. Why are Darling and her friends going to Budapest in "Hitting Budapest"?

4. What does Chipo reveal to Darling during the church service in "Darling on the Mountain"? Why?

5. How is Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro's character described?

6. How do the children respond to the woman from London in "Hitting Budapest"?

7. How old is the protagonist when the novel begins? What is her family like?

8. What is the symbolic significance of the Lamborghini that appears in the novel?

9. How is the interior of the white couple's home described in "Blak Power"?

10. Where does Darling attend church services with Mother of Bones? How is this setting described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Darling's experiences in the white couple's house in "Blak Power." Who are the militant rebels that have destroyed the house and taken its owners hostage? Why have they done this? What observations do Darling and her friends make when they explore the house?

Essay Topic 2

What events led to Darling's family living in a shack in Paradise? What was their home like before? How does Darling recall the events surrounding losing her childhood home?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the character of Darling as the novel's protagonist. How old is Darling when the novel begins? What are the circumstances of Darling's life like? How do Darling's circumstances change in the course of the novel?

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