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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Second Girl" - "Loopholes".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author believe that a person is most themselves, according to the story "Pray, Trevor"?
(a) When looking into the eyes of a loved one.
(b) When defecating.
(c) When working.
(d) When suffering.

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

3. What unusual career move did Patricia make in the early 1980s?
(a) She became a secretary.
(b) She became a housekeeper.
(c) She started working in a factory.
(d) She became a chiropractor.

4. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?
(a) The author and his friend started a moderately successful wood furnishing business.
(b) They accidentally burned down the author's friend's house.
(c) They wrote their names in the side of the house and got in trouble.
(d) His friend wrote a bad word and blamed it on the author.

5. What language does the author indicate was especially valued for making prayers while he was growing up in Soweto?
(a) Swahili.
(b) English.
(c) Afrikaans.
(d) Xhosa.

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's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?

3. Which church does the author describe as "passionate" and "cathartic"?

4. What diagnosis did the school psychologists give the author after he laughed while being corporally punished?

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

(see the answer key)

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