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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 behave when he realized he had a crush during grade 9?
(a) He kept it secret.
(b) He asked his mother for advice.
(c) He disavowed all forms of lust and went into monastic seclusion.
(d) He asked his crush out right away.

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

3. What did the author and Mayelene have in common?
(a) They lived in the same house together.
(b) They both hated the entire idea of Valentine's Day.
(c) They both had a mix of white and black ancestry.
(d) They both had crushes on a white boy named Lorenzo.

4. According to the author, what did crime do that the government would not do in Alexandra, South Africa?
(a) Crime scared the community.
(b) Crime hurt the community.
(c) Crime cared for the community.
(d) Crime confused the community.

5. What was the "pencil test" that the government administered to some colored people in South Africa?
(a) A literacy test that colored people had to pass in order to vote in South African elections.
(b) A measurement of a worker's strength determined by how large a bundle of pencils they could break with their bare hands.
(c) A test to determine whiteness, based on whether a pencil would stay in place if stuck in one's hair.
(d) A written test that, if passed, qualified a colored person to be reclassified as white.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The children of Soweto would yell out "indoda yomlungu!" whenever they passed the author. What does this phrase mean?

3. Why could the author not ask Maylene out right away for Valentine's Day?

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

5. According to the author, what racial group was notorious for having the most dangerous gangsters in South Africa?

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