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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 214- 261.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rosa's profession when she grows up?
(a) She is a physical therapist.
(b) She is a physiotherapist.
(c) She is a nurse.
(d) She is a psychologist.

2. How many black miners participated in the strike of 1946 in South Africa?
(a) 76,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

3. What is James afraid of in regards to the black children?
(a) They too will lead oppressed lives.
(b) They too will be imprisoned for the cause.
(c) They will fight for the wrong cause when the time comes.
(d) That for them the fight is just words, and they will not know how to take action.

4. What did the trial after the strike allow the government to do?
(a) Get Lionel Burger ousted from the Communist Party.
(b) Stop underground operations.
(c) Pass the Supression of Communism Act.
(d) Shut down the African Mineworkers Union.

5. What does the government assume Rosa is trying to get from the Nationalists?
(a) A job.
(b) A passbook.
(c) A book about her father.
(d) Information.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lionel Burger die?

2. What happens to the man in the park who was sitting on the bench across from Rosa?

3. What does Madame Bagnelli recall about Rosa's mother as they chat on their first day?

4. Who is Rosa Burger going to visit on the day that she first goes to the prison?

5. What does Dick whisper to Rosa in the window of her car as she is about to leave his home?

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