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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Trevor, Pray" - "Chameleon".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who threw the author from a moving vehicle when he was a young boy?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) A bank robber.
(d) A policeman.

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

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

5. Why did Frances Noah refuse to beat the author when the author was a little boy?
(a) She was afraid that Trevor would overpower her.
(b) She thought that beating children was wrong.
(c) She claimed she did not know how to hit a white child.
(d) She did not know whether or not Trevor's mother approved of corporal punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did people in Soweto use the author as a landmark for giving directions when he was young?

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

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?

4. What does the author indicate would probably happen if a black man had sex with a white woman under the apartheid system?

5. To what did Patricia attribute the fecal matter she discovered in her wastepaper basket?

(see the answer key)

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