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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 answer did Patricia give when the author asked her why she chose to give birth to him?
(a) She had him to spite the apartheid regime.
(b) She had him by accident.
(c) She wanted someone that would love her whom she could love in return.
(d) She had him out of love for his father.

2. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?
(a) "We were a team."
(b) "She was like my boss."
(c) "I was like her savior."
(d) "We never got along at all."

3. 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) Their parents forbade them from hanging out with him.
(c) They remembered his destructive antics in Soweto.
(d) They all lived far away and his mother would never buy the petrol to take him to their homes.

4. Why did the author cry after he and Patricia retrieved Fufi?
(a) He cried because Fufi bit him.
(b) He cried because the other boy gave him a vicious cussing out.
(c) He cried because Patricia was so impatient with him.
(d) He cried because Fufi loved another boy.

5. How did the shopkeeper in the story "Chameleon" respond when Patricia proved she could understand Afrikaans?
(a) He apologized for racially profiling her.
(b) He insulted her pronunciation.
(c) He began speaking a language she could not understand.
(d) He insisted he never said anything inappropriate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author feel when he saw what Abel did to the ringleader from the incident under the mulberry tree?

2. What nationality is listed on the author's birth certificate?

3. Why did the author have trouble fitting in with his white classmates at Sandingham?

4. What advice did Patricia give the author for how he should act if his wife made more money than him?

5. Which of the following is NOT a language that Patricia taught to the author?

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