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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boesman compare the people crawling out of "their holes" to?
(a) Maggots.
(b) Rats.
(c) Worms.
(d) Moles.

2. What does Lena say that if they'd spent all this time looking for, it would have found them by now?
(a) Joy.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Family.
(d) Freedom.

3. Who says, "Aaak sy bek oop"?
(a) Outa.
(b) Athol.
(c) Boesman.
(d) Lena.

4. Who says, "There was something else in that fire. Us! Our sad stories, our smells, our world! And it burnt"?
(a) Lena.
(b) Zachariah.
(c) Boesman.
(d) Outa.

5. What does Lena take off the dead man and throw at Boesman?
(a) His bottles.
(b) His clothes.
(c) His wallet.
(d) Her blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dronkie?

2. Who says, "This is the time and place. To hell with the others. They're finished, and mixed up anyway"?

3. What is the one thing Boesman says he's looking for?

4. What did Lena do when the bulldozers came?

5. What does the phrase "pap ou borste, ribbetjies" mean?

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