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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 Abel respond when the author told him what happened under the mulberry tree?
(a) He bought the author a new toy to cheer him up.
(b) He told the author to go defend himself.
(c) He hunted down the boys who beat the author and he beat up their ring leader.
(d) He laughed at the author.

2. Why did the author perform at the Hammanskraal talent show?
(a) He had been challenged to play the ukulele as a dare.
(b) He wanted to show off how many languages he could speak.
(c) His friend Tom had promised them he was the famous hip hop hype man, Spliff Star.
(d) He had some new stand-up comedy material to try out.

3. At the end of the foreword to the story "Born a Crime," the author wrote that apartheid would be easy for occupants of which country to understand?
(a) Costa Rica.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) America.
(d) England.

4. Who did the author forget was in the house when he defecated on the newspaper?
(a) Koko.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Nombuyiselo.
(d) Frances.

5. Who did the author credit with giving him and his friends permission to chant Hitler's name?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Morgan Freeman.
(c) Nelson Mandela.
(d) Joseph Goebbels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suspect of his friend from Alexandra who lost his retail job?

2. What did the author discover in a stolen object, causing him to rethink his life of crime as described in the story "The Cheese Boys"?

3. According to the author, how do white people treat dogs in South Africa?

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

5. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?

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