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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 happens to the rest of the women in prison?
(a) Some are taken away to be raped.
(b) All choices are correct.
(c) Some are verbally abused.
(d) Some are made to undress infront of guards.

2. Which character suffers the most while in prison?
(a) MaBiyela.
(b) Nosizwe.
(c) Zenzile.
(d) Jezile.

3. What is the name of the city in which Siyalo works?
(a) Tongaat.
(b) Pinetown.
(c) Durban.
(d) Umlazi.

4. How does Siyalo feel about Jezile's prison sentence?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Free and happy.
(c) Confused and bored.
(d) Angry.

5. Who owns the cow that eventually feeds S'naye?
(a) Zenzile.
(b) Nosizwe.
(c) MaBiyela.
(d) Lungu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jezile attend a protest?

2. Why does S'naye have no food while Jezile is in prison?

3. Does Jezile realize the circumstances she left S'naye in when she was sent to prison?

4. Why does Jezile want a child?

5. Where does Jezile stay while visiting her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mthebe.

2. What signals Jezile that she might be pregnant while in prison?

3. Describe the conditions of Jezile and Siyalo's first night in Durban.

4. How does Jezile feel when she returns home?

5. Describe Nosizwe.

6. Describe Jezile.

7. Describe Zenzile.

8. How do the women feel when Nosizwe is first separated from them?

9. How do Jezile and the other women feel about passes?

10. What happens while Nosizwe is isolated in her prison cell?

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