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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. Who threw the author from a moving vehicle when he was a young boy?
(a) A bank robber.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) A policeman.

2. What does the name Nombuyiselo mean?
(a) "A builder of ships."
(b) "She who popped out of nowhere."
(c) "The Fixer."
(d) "She who gives back."

3. Why was the author surprised when Patricia insisted that he go see his father?
(a) Patricia hated the author's father.
(b) The author did not know who his father was.
(c) The author and his father had not spoken in ten years and the author assumed they would never speak again.
(d) The author thought his father was dead.

4. 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 too religious.
(b) He thought Patricia's advice was heteronormative.
(c) He thought that Patricia's advice was suited to adult relationships rather than children's relationships.
(d) He thought Patricia's advice was naive.

5. On what does the author blame most of the things that have gone wrong in his life?
(a) The death of his mother.
(b) Second-hand cars.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Robert's steakhouse close?

2. Why was Patricia allowed to stay on the farm at age nine?

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

4. What does the Afrikans term "amperbaas," used to refer to the status of colored people under apartheid, mean?

5. Why was the author afraid to pray for God to kill the thing that left feces in his grandmother's house?

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