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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 is one privilege that Nelson is able to get in prison by Chapter 71?
(a) Individual prison uniforms.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Winter Hats.
(d) Conjugal visits.

2. What magazine are the men able to get in the prison in Chapter 65?
(a) Jet.
(b) The Economist.
(c) Hustler.
(d) Time.

3. What alias does Nelson give the police when he is arrested?
(a) Guar Gauber.
(b) Manny Neilson.
(c) David Motsamayi.
(d) Walter Sisulu.

4. What time are the prisoners awoken each morning?
(a) 7:30.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 5:30.

5. How does Bram's wife, Molly die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Murdered by a mugger.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Kidnapped and beaten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname given to Nelson's new military arm of the ANC?

2. Where does Nelson go when he returns to South Africa in Chapter 49?

3. Where does Nelson travel first on his travels across Africa in Chapter 47?

4. Where is Nelson's trial moved to in Chapter 51?

5. What does Colonel Marx ask Nelson in Chapter 92?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Robert Sobukwe?

2. How does prison life improve for the inmates of Robben Island by Chapter 71?

3. How does Botha's resignation move the struggle for freedom in the right direction?

4. How does Nelson describe Christmas on Robben Island in Chapter 71?

5. Why is Robben Island nicknamed "the University"?

6. How is Rivonia discovered?

7. Why is Nelson placed in solitary confinement in Chapter 52?

8. How does Nelson describe Pollsmoor in Chapter 87?

9. Why is it so hard for people to visit the prisoners on Bobben Island?

10. In Chapter 49, what does Nelson report to the Working Committee?

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