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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Second Girl" - "Loopholes".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which church does the author describe as "passionate" and "cathartic"?
(a) The multiracial church.
(b) The Chinese church.
(c) The mostly white church.
(d) The mostly black church.

2. To what was Patricia referring when she spoke of "the black tax" (66)?
(a) The tendency of white employers to illegally steal the wages of black employees during apartheid.
(b) A special tax Afrikaners had to pay after apartheid to provide reparations to black people.
(c) An official government tax paid only by black people.
(d) The need to spend one's working life making up for that which was pillaged from one's ancestors.

3. 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 probably let them off with a warning.
(b) The white woman would probably be charged with rape.
(c) The black man would probably be charged with rape.
(d) The police would not care at all.

4. How did arguments between the author and his mother change after the author turned eight?
(a) Their arguments became nastier and more personal.
(b) They stopped arguing altogether.
(c) They began to argue in writing instead of in person.
(d) They started arguing about more mature topics.

5. When was the Immorality Act passed?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1877.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Patricia handle "major disputes" (84) with the author?

2. From what mental disorder did Temperance Noah suffer?

3. Who did the author forget was in the house when he defecated on the newspaper?

4. What does the name Nombuyiselo mean?

5. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?

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