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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 does the man in #22 often provide to his employees?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Medical care.
(c) Shelter.
(d) Food.

2. Oubaas and his wife think that Tengo's desire for education will lead to _____________.
(a) A writing career.
(b) A respectable overseer.
(c) A political position.
(d) Trouble.

3. What is the meaning of kleinbaas?
(a) Long journey.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Young master.
(d) Master baker.

4. Whom does Frikkie's cousin order to clean up the mess on the floor at the party?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Ellis.
(c) Ezekiel.
(d) Isaiah.

5. Who is Joseph?
(a) Tengo's cousin.
(b) Tengo's father.
(c) Tengo's brother.
(d) Frikkie's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author live as a child?

2. What is Tengo doing when Frikkie finds him in Chapter 2?

3. In the oubaas' story, Tengo's ancestors are made out to be __________________.

4. What does Frikkie give the girls to assure that they don't tell anyone about Tengo's outburst?

5. What is in the box that arrives for Tengo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How easily does Tengo pick up the skill of reading?

2. How does Tengo feel as he learns more and more about how his ancestors were treated?

3. Why is Frikkie given so much respect on his uncle's farm?

4. How are the differences between blacks and whites exhibited in the characters of Frikkie and Tengo?

5. Why can Tengo not defend his people to the oubaas regarding the story of the Great Trek?

6. How do the oubaas twist the story of the Great Trek told to Frikkie and Tengo?

7. Who is Tengo?

8. Why is Tengo not permitted to attend school and how does he feel about that?

9. How does Frikkie behave when encountering Tengo's anger when a girl insults an elder at the birthday party?

10. Who is Frikkie?

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