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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 does the author say he never felt poor when living alone with Patricia?
(a) They had lots of money.
(b) Everyone around them was even poorer.
(c) They were just grateful that apartheid was ending.
(d) Their lives were rich with experience.

2. Who were the author's number one customers?
(a) Slow guys.
(b) Foolish guys.
(c) White guys.
(d) Fat guys.

3. Where did Patricia move at age nine?
(a) She moved in with her mother.
(b) She moved in with her aunt.
(c) She moved in with her father.
(d) She ran away from her family entirely.

4. How did the author view the "destructive" (79) antics from his youth?
(a) He was creating chaos to see how people reacted.
(b) He had an insatiable desire to see the world burn.
(c) He wanted vengeance on those that wronged him.
(d) He was not destructive at all, he just got a bad rap because of his racial identity.

5. Why did Alexandra remain standing while other "black ghettoes" (201) were razed?
(a) Alexandra was on a piece of holy ground that white people chose to respect.
(b) The white people allowed Alexandra to remain standing as an act of charity.
(c) The residents of Alexandra fought off the white suburbanites.
(d) The land in Alexandra had been sold to black tenants before doing so was made illegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?

2. What element of American culture does the author equate with freedom in the story, "Go Hitler!"?

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

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

5. What holiday did the author experience for the first time at H. A. Jack Primary?

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