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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 were Model C Schools?

2. According to the author, which culture do the "colored people" of modern South Africa have the strongest link to?

3. How did the author feel about Maylene before Valentine's Day?

4. Who did the author credit with giving him and his friends permission to chant Hitler's name?

5. What advice did Patricia give the author about prioritizing between his wife and mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How multilingual is South Africa?

2. How was the author able to pose as an American rapper for the talent show in Hammanskraal?

3. How was the author eventually able to make friends at Highlands North?

4. What conclusion did the author draw after his encounter with the police at the end of the story "The Cheese Boys"?

5. What attribute of the author's aided him in his business fetching lunch for people but also prevented his romantic success?

6. How does the author describe his early thoughts about his victims when he starts a life of crime in the story "The Cheese Boys"?

7. Why did the author think it made sense for Mayelene to leave him and date Lorenzo instead?

8. Why was the author late to the dance?

9. Why could none of the police recognize the author in the security footage?

10. What did the author realize when Abel beat up the ringleader from the incident under the mulberry tree?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At many points in the collection "Born a Crime," Trevor Noah draws links between the racial politics of South Africa and America. Write an essay analyzing the similarities and differences that the author describes between the two countries and assess the author's purpose for drawing these comparisons.

Essay Topic 2

Police brutality is one the many forms of violence that are depicted in the collection "Born a Crime." Write an essay analyzing the author's rhetoric and attitudes concerning police brutality and how it relates to other forms of violence depicted in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Child abuse is one the many forms of violence that are depicted in the collection "Born a Crime." Write an essay analyzing the author's rhetoric and attitudes concerning child abuse and how it relates to other forms of violence depicted in the book.

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