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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. In what country did the author grow up?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) South America.
(d) North Africa.

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

3. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?
(a) Going to H. A. Jack Primary.
(b) Failing to get along with his white father.
(c) Seeing his mother write "black" on a government census.
(d) Going to an elite private school where students were socially integrated.

4. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?
(a) "We were a team."
(b) "She was like my boss."
(c) "I was like her savior."
(d) "We never got along at all."

5. What diagnosis did the school psychologists give the author after he laughed while being corporally punished?
(a) They diagnosed him with sociopathy.
(b) None-they determined he was mentally normal.
(c) They diagnosed him with bipolar disorder.
(d) They diagnosed him with ADHD.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the author indicate was especially valued for making prayers while he was growing up in Soweto?

2. What answer did Patricia give when the author asked her why she chose to give birth to him?

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

4. What were the two main things Patricia would spend money on when her son was growing up?

5. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?

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