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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. Which tribe does the author describe as "warriors"?
(a) The Sotho.
(b) The Xhosa.
(c) The Zulu.
(d) The Tswana.

2. Where did Patricia move at age nine?
(a) She moved in with her father.
(b) She moved in with her aunt.
(c) She moved in with her mother.
(d) She ran away from her family entirely.

3. To what was Patricia referring when she spoke of "the black tax" (66)?
(a) The tendency of white employers to illegally steal the wages of black employees during apartheid.
(b) An official government tax paid only by black people.
(c) A special tax Afrikaners had to pay after apartheid to provide reparations to black people.
(d) The need to spend one's working life making up for that which was pillaged from one's ancestors.

4. Which tribe does the author describe as "thinkers"?
(a) The Tswana.
(b) The Sotho.
(c) The Xhosa.
(d) The Zulu.

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 cussed the kid out.
(c) He pretended to let the boy keep Fufi, then kidnapped her under cover of night.
(d) He negotiated shared custody of the dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author indicate would probably happen if a black man had sex with a white woman under the apartheid system?

2. How did the author feel about pushing his mother's car?

3. What did the author say he had learned about Robert after they spent the weekend together?

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

5. Why was the author difficult for his caretakers to handle when he was very little?

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