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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. How does Potgieter treat Jezile?
(a) Kindly.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Neutrally.
(d) Coldly.

2. What happens to Lungu while he is at school?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is hired.
(c) He is stabbed.
(d) He is arrested.

3. When is Ndondo baptized?
(a) When she is a teenager.
(b) At birth.
(c) Never.
(d) When she is one year old.

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

5. What does Jezile offer to do for the road crew?
(a) Mine coal.
(b) Chop wood.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Brew beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jezile's financial state at the beginning of Chapter 11?

2. What does the military do to the women of the village?

3. In Chaper 11, Jezile befriends ____.

4. How does Jezile feel when Siyalo does not return home one night?

5. Why do Jezile and S'naye travel to Ixopo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the women help their men once the raids begin?

2. What does Siyalo look like when Jezile first returns from prison?

3. Why does MaBiyela want Ndondo to be baptized?

4. What does S'naye look like when Jezile returns from prison?

5. How does Jezile react to seeing S'naye's condition after she returns from prison?

6. List three of the items Jezile most commonly purchases for her family.

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

8. Describe Potgieter.

9. List three of the clothing items Jezile sews for money.

10. What are Jezile and MaBiyela's beliefs when it comes to Siyalo's imprisonment?

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