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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boesman say that Outa will do?
(a) Steal their money.
(b) Bring the others.
(c) Sing.
(d) Kill them in the night.

2. What does Lena give to Outa after he sits?
(a) Water.
(b) Prawns.
(c) Wine.
(d) Pears.

3. What did the two white children come to watch Lena count this morning?
(a) Her scabs.
(b) Her fleas.
(c) Her bottles.
(d) Her bruises.

4. How old are Lena and Boesman?
(a) Sixties.
(b) Twenties.
(c) Fifties.
(d) Seventies.

5. What does Lena say she hates in the beginning of Act 1?
(a) The clouds.
(b) The bats.
(c) The sky.
(d) The birds.

6. What does Boesman do with the piece of corrugated iron?
(a) Hits Lena.
(b) Uses it for the fire.
(c) Builds a lean-to.
(d) Makes a trap with it.

7. What is the translation for "dog" in Africaan?
(a) Cann.
(b) Raak.
(c) Hond.
(d) Craag.

8. Fill in the blank: "Once you've put your _____ on your head and walked you never get light again."
(a) Life.
(b) Pans.
(c) Firewood.
(d) Belongings.

9. What does Lena say she'll do once she's got a new name?
(a) Leave Boesman.
(b) Give up dancing.
(c) Stop singing.
(d) Become a nun.

10. What did the white man do to Lena and Boesman's village?
(a) Flooded it.
(b) Looted it.
(c) Raided it.
(d) Bulldozed it.

11. Who goes into the shelter at the end of Act 1?
(a) Lena.
(b) Outa.
(c) Zachariah.
(d) Boesman.

12. What does Lena say there's never enough of to sleep at night?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Warmth.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Wine.

13. What does "vrot ou huisie vir die grot mens" mean?
(a) Another roadside attraction.
(b) Another homeless man.
(c) Another rotten house for rotten people.
(d) A way home.

14. What does Boesman do to the old man while Lena is looking for shelter materials?
(a) Shoves him off his seat.
(b) Gives him water.
(c) Gives him wine.
(d) Hugs him.

15. What does "skof" mean?
(a) To walk.
(b) Stretch.
(c) Foothill.
(d) Sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Lena want to have?

2. What does Lena say that the bread should have on it?

3. What does Boesman tell Lena she should have done at the white family's house?

4. Who says, "You don't like it when somebody else laughs. Well, you laughed at me for nothing"?

5. What followed Lena all the way back to Korsten?

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