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

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

3. What crime did the author's parents commit when they had him?
(a) They kidnapped him from his real parents.
(b) They illegally crossed the border to have him in Swaziland.
(c) They each had intercourse with a person of another race.
(d) They hired an off-the-books midwife to deliver him.

4. How did Robert feel when Patricia asked him to impregnate her?
(a) He said he did not want a family.
(b) He said he did not like Patricia at all.
(c) He said he wanted to start a family right away.
(d) He said he was not physically attracted to Patricia.

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

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 does the name Nombuyiselo mean?

3. Why does the author compare Patricia to a "guerilla fighter" (84)?

4. Where did Patricia move at age nine?

5. When was the Immorality Act passed?

(see the answer key)

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