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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 author find inappropriate about the relationship advice Patricia gave him when he was a child?
(a) He thought Patricia's advice was heteronormative.
(b) He thought Patricia's advice was naive.
(c) He thought Patricia's advice was too religious.
(d) He thought that Patricia's advice was suited to adult relationships rather than children's relationships.

2. Why was the author difficult for his caretakers to handle when he was very little?
(a) He was hyperactive and very hungry.
(b) He was cruel.
(c) He was smelly.
(d) He did not speak the same language as any of them.

3. According to the author, how do white people treat dogs in South Africa?
(a) They treat them like peers.
(b) They treat them like tools.
(c) They treat them like alarm systems.
(d) They treat them like children.

4. How did the author feel about Maylene before Valentine's Day?
(a) He was madly in love with her.
(b) He had never heard of her.
(c) He thought she was cool and fun to hang out with.
(d) He hated her.

5. Why did the author have trouble fitting in with his colored classmates at Sandingham?
(a) They would bully him for being too white.
(b) They spent all their free time doing expensive things.
(c) They all lived far away.
(d) They would bully him for being too black.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what mental disorder did Temperance Noah suffer?

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

3. What was the "pencil test" that the government administered to some colored people in South Africa?

4. What did the vet reveal to the author about his dog, Fufi, after she died?

5. How did Abel respond when the author told him what happened under the mulberry tree?

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