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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, p. 87-115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?
(a) To send her daughters away.
(b) To keep the children quiet the next morning.
(c) To send Bheki away.
(d) To leave the house for a week.

2. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.
(b) Because he wants to join the army.
(c) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.
(d) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.

3. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?
(a) A video cassette.
(b) A political pamphlet.
(c) A gun.
(d) A bicycle.

4. Who are the only two people the narrator say she would speak to on the phone?
(a) Her sister and her brother.
(b) Bach and Beethoven.
(c) Her daughter and Tchaikovsky.
(d) Her daughter and Bach.

5. Why does the narrator refuse to give the man money for nothing?
(a) Because it is a bad precedent.
(b) Because she does not have cash.
(c) Because he does not deserve it.
(d) Because it fosters laziness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Bheki's friend kept?

2. What is the name of the housekeeper's son?

3. What does the narrator say to the housekeeper that one day will hurt everybody?

4. What injury does Bheki's friend have following the crash?

5. What does the narrator say to the young man her and her group meet as she rejects his request?

(see the answer key)

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