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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 S'naye study to be?
(a) A seamstress.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A chef.

2. Siyalo sent to prison for ____ years?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Twenty years.

3. Why does Jezile worry that she will lose her children?
(a) Because people might worry about their quality of living.
(b) Because people might think she has been unfaithful.
(c) Because people might want to take her land.
(d) Because people might want to make her work far away.

4. How do Jezile and the others get home from prison?
(a) Plane.
(b) Train.
(c) Bus.
(d) Bicycle.

5. Why does Potgieter ask Jezile to work in his home?
(a) So she can earn higher wages.
(b) So she can meet educated people.
(c) So she can be a servant to his wife.
(d) So she can have a place to live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is MaNgidi?

2. What happens to Siyalo at the end of Chapter 10?

3. Where is Lungu sent to school?

4. What happens to Lungu while he is at school?

5. Who is with Jezile when she gives birth to her second child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jezile dread Siyalo's return?

2. Why does Jezile feel sad when she looks at S'naye's frilly dress?

3. Why does Jezile accept the job as the foreman's wife's servant?

4. How do Jezile and the other women feel when they are first released from prison?

5. Why do the soldiers bring the charred bodies of Counselor Duma's family out to the hillside?

6. Why does Siyalo want a job so badly?

7. Why does Jezile work for the road crew and the white foreman?

8. Why does MaBiyela want Ndondo to be baptized?

9. Why does Jezile desire a home of her own?

10. What are the young women in Jezile's village like?

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