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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. What did the vet reveal to the author about his dog, Fufi, after she died?
(a) Fufi died of natural causes.
(b) Fufi was actually a coyote.
(c) Fufi was deaf.
(d) Fufi had been pregnant.
2. What answer did Patricia give when the author asked her why she chose to give birth to him?
(a) She wanted someone that would love her whom she could love in return.
(b) She had him to spite the apartheid regime.
(c) She had him out of love for his father.
(d) She had him by accident.
3. Why did Patricia warn the author not to tell Abel about the incident under the mulberry tree?
(a) Abel had just had a long day and could not handle the emotional stress of learning what happened.
(b) She knew that Abel would react with violence.
(c) She knew that Abel would laugh at the author.
(d) She did not want Abel to know that she had raised a son who could not protect himself.
4. How did Abel respond when the author told him what happened under the mulberry tree?
(a) He hunted down the boys who beat the author and he beat up their ring leader.
(b) He bought the author a new toy to cheer him up.
(c) He told the author to go defend himself.
(d) He laughed at the author.
5. According to the author, how do white people treat dogs in South Africa?
(a) They treat them like children.
(b) They treat them like tools.
(c) They treat them like alarm systems.
(d) They treat them like peers.
Short Answer Questions
1. When does the author believe that a person is most themselves, according to the story "Pray, Trevor"?
2. What unusual career move did Patricia make in the early 1980s?
3. Why was the author not allowed to eat food when visiting Temperance Noah's second family?
4. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?
5. What did Robert show the author after the author tracked him down in Cape Town?
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