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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught Patricia how to navigate Johannesburg without being deported to the Bantustans?
(a) Police.
(b) Food vendors.
(c) Mini-bus drivers.
(d) Prostitutes.

2. What does the author indicate would probably happen if a black man had sex with a white woman under the apartheid system?
(a) The police would not care at all.
(b) The police would probably let them off with a warning.
(c) The black man would probably be charged with rape.
(d) The white woman would probably be charged with rape.

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 hired an off-the-books midwife to deliver him.
(d) They each had intercourse with a person of another race.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a language that Patricia taught to the author?

2. What did the school counselor warn the author about when he asked to transition into the B classes at H. A. Jack Primary?

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

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

5. In what country did the author grow up?

(see the answer key)

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