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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Mulberry Tree" - "Outsider".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?
(a) He called the owners of the school racist.
(b) He apologized for the misunderstanding.
(c) He converted to Catholicism.
(d) He asked if Jesus, being Jewish, would also be denied the right of communion.

2. What did the author do to get to know his father better after their reunion in Cape Town?
(a) He interviewed him.
(b) He spied on him.
(c) He hired a private investigator.
(d) He had him fill out a questionnaire.

3. What did the girls in the author's grade want him to do for Valentine's Day?
(a) They wanted him to dress as cupid.
(b) They wanted him to make them all valentines.
(c) They wanted him to teach their boyfriends to dance.
(d) They wanted the author to ask out his friend, Maylene.

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

5. How did the author respond when another boy claimed that Fufi was his dog?
(a) He allowed the boy to keep Fufi full-time.
(b) He negotiated shared custody of the dog.
(c) He pretended to let the boy keep Fufi, then kidnapped her under cover of night.
(d) He cussed the kid out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the cats that Patricia adopted after moving to Eden Park?

2. What happened after the author asked Maylene out during their walk home together?

3. How did the author track Robert down after his mother instructed him to do so?

4. Why was the author unable to play with his cousins when he was very young?

5. How did the author feel about Maylene before Valentine's Day?

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