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

2. Where did Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko go to school?
(a) They did not go to school.
(b) Government-run Bantu schools.
(c) They went to school over seas.
(d) Schools founded by British missionaries.

3. How would Fufi escape the author's yard?
(a) She would jump over the fence.
(b) She would beg and whine until passers by let her out.
(c) She would crawl through a small tunnel.
(d) She would sneak through a broken gate.

4. Why were students willing to pay the author to buy food for them?
(a) The tuck-shop owner always made food for the author with special care.
(b) They did not realize they could get in line themselves.
(c) It saved them time in the queue.
(d) They felt sorry for the author.

5. Why was Patricia allowed to stay on the farm at age nine?
(a) Her aunt kept her on the farm out of the kindness of her heart.
(b) Her aunt kept her on the farm to protect her from their parents.
(c) She was kept on the farm to work.
(d) Her aunt kept her on the farm to keep an eye on her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author feel about Maylene before Valentine's Day?

2. How did the author react as a child when children in the neighborhood called him white?

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

4. When does the author believe that a person is most themselves, according to the story "Pray, Trevor"?

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

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