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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Go Hitler!" - "The Cheese Boys".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author have trouble fitting in with his black classmates at Sandingham?
(a) They all lived far away and his mother would never buy the petrol to take him to their homes.
(b) They refused to associate with someone who was light-skinned.
(c) They remembered his destructive antics in Soweto.
(d) Their parents forbade them from hanging out with him.

2. Where did Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko go to school?
(a) They went to school over seas.
(b) Schools founded by British missionaries.
(c) Government-run Bantu schools.
(d) They did not go to school.

3. What did the teacher who unplugged the author's speakers assume about the author and his dance crew?
(a) She assumed that they were mocking the school's Jewish population.
(b) She assumed that they would be playing more pop ballads.
(c) She assumed that they had never heard of Adolf Hitler.
(d) She assumed that they would be more skilled dancers.

4. What were Model C Schools?
(a) Remnants of the Bantu system.
(b) Schools that mixed elements of Government and private ownership.
(c) Fancy private schools favored by white children.
(d) Poorly funded government schools.

5. What was the name of the best dancer on the author's crew?
(a) Babiki.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Tom.
(d) Trevor.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what did the name "Hitler" connote to black South Africans in the area and time where the author grew up?

2. What does the author suspect of his friend from Alexandra who lost his retail job?

3. How did the author feel about pushing his mother's car?

4. Why did the author have trouble fitting in with his colored classmates at Sandingham?

5. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?

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