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

2. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?
(a) They wrote their names in the side of the house and got in trouble.
(b) They accidentally burned down the author's friend's house.
(c) The author and his friend started a moderately successful wood furnishing business.
(d) His friend wrote a bad word and blamed it on the author.

3. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?
(a) Failing to get along with his white father.
(b) Going to an elite private school where students were socially integrated.
(c) Seeing his mother write "black" on a government census.
(d) Going to H. A. Jack Primary.

4. What happened to the cats that Patricia adopted after moving to Eden Park?
(a) They were mutilated.
(b) They ran away.
(c) They got sick and had to be put down.
(d) They had too many kittens.

5. What was the only part of a person's home that could not be improved in Soweto?
(a) The ceiling.
(b) The driveway.
(c) The walls.
(d) The bathroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did people in Soweto use the author as a landmark for giving directions when he was young?

2. What crime did the author's parents commit when they had him?

3. Who were the author's number one customers?

4. Why does the author think Santa Claus is unpopular in Africa?

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

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