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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “A Young Man’s Long, Awkward, Occasionally Tragic, and Frequently Humiliating Education in Affairs of the Heart, Part 2: The Crush” - “A Young Man’s Long, Awkward, Occasionally Tragic, and Frequently Humiliating Education in Affairs of the Heart, Part 3: The Dance” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who threw the author from a moving vehicle when he was a young boy?
(a) A policeman.
(b) His mother.
(c) A bank robber.
(d) His father.

2. Why did Patricia warn the author not to tell Abel about the incident under the mulberry tree?
(a) She knew that Abel would laugh at the author.
(b) She knew that Abel would react with violence.
(c) Abel had just had a long day and could not handle the emotional stress of learning what happened.
(d) She did not want Abel to know that she had raised a son who could not protect himself.

3. Why did the author think it was ironic when a black security guard was convicted of animal abuse for killing a cat on live TV?
(a) White people were horrified by the animal abuse yet were silent about violence against black humans during apartheid.
(b) The security guard came from a long line of cat breeders.
(c) Traditionally, security guards in South Africa keep cats as helpers.
(d) The author believes cats would do much worse things to humans if they were in charge instead.

4. Why did the author have trouble fitting in with his black classmates at Sandingham?
(a) They remembered his destructive antics in Soweto.
(b) Their parents forbade them from hanging out with him.
(c) They all lived far away and his mother would never buy the petrol to take him to their homes.
(d) They refused to associate with someone who was light-skinned.

5. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?
(a) He called the owners of the school racist.
(b) He asked if Jesus, being Jewish, would also be denied the right of communion.
(c) He apologized for the misunderstanding.
(d) He converted to Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did arguments between the author and his mother change after the author turned eight?

2. What does the author indicate would probably happen if a black man had sex with a white woman under the apartheid system?

3. Why did students come out of the dance to look at Babiki?

4. What diagnosis did the school psychologists give the author after he laughed while being corporally punished?

5. What cartoon character's name did Patricia use to refer to Teddy?

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