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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The World Doesn’t Love You” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?
(a) She threw him out of the vehicle.
(b) She bribed the men into leaving them alone.
(c) She threatened the men into leaving them alone.
(d) She beat the men senseless.

2. How did the shopkeeper in the story "Chameleon" respond when Patricia proved she could understand Afrikaans?
(a) He insulted her pronunciation.
(b) He began speaking a language she could not understand.
(c) He insisted he never said anything inappropriate.
(d) He apologized for racially profiling her.

3. Why would people in Alexandra sometimes clasp their wrists together?
(a) To signal that they needed peace and quiet.
(b) To begin a yoga session.
(c) To ask what time it was.
(d) To indicate that someone had been arrested.

4. Why does the author compare Patricia to a "guerilla fighter" (84)?
(a) She disliked the great apes and, growing up, the author did not know the difference between a "guerilla fighter" and a "gorilla fighter."
(b) She was extremely proficient with improvised explosives.
(c) She was too slow to catch him for a whooping so she had to get her attacks in on the fly.
(d) She fought for what she believed in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author believe about the dog Fufi before the vet looked at Fufi's corpse?

2. What did the author say he had learned about Robert after they spent the weekend together?

3. How did Robert feel when Patricia asked him to impregnate her?

4. Why did Frances Noah refuse to beat the author when the author was a little boy?

5. What does the name Nombuyiselo mean?

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