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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year does the novel take place?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1936.

2. Who performs the sacrament that is performed immediately following the sentencing in the prison?
(a) Msimangu.
(b) Kumalo.
(c) A prison chaplain.
(d) Father Vincent.

3. Who reveals to the Jarvises that their son has been murdered?
(a) Stephen Kumalo.
(b) Their daughter in law, Mary Jarvis.
(c) Their son’s brother-in-law, John Harrison.
(d) A local police captain, Van Jaarsveld.

4. What is Stephen Kumalo’s profession?
(a) He is a tribal chief.
(b) He is a reverend.
(c) He is a teacher.
(d) He is a farmer.

5. Which of the following is NOT a reason Arthur mentions in his paper that whites need to take responsibility for helping blacks?
(a) Because whites destroyed blacks’ tribal life in the first place.
(b) Because of blacks’ inferior intelligence and inability to help themselves.
(c) Because whites have actively suppressed the education of blacks out of fear.
(d) Because people who consider themselves Christians should not subjugate others in the name of God’s will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does the writer of the letter live in?

2. How many black miners die during their short-lived strike?

3. Why does Kumalo humbly accept this apology rather than expressing his true feelings about the unnecessary anger directed at him?

4. Chapter 12 steps out of the main plot to relate snippets of whites reacting to “native crime” via what platform?

5. What does Msimangu give Kumalo during their final moments together?

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