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

2. 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) America.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) England.
(d) Costa Rica.

3. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?
(a) Seeing his mother write "black" on a government census.
(b) Going to H. A. Jack Primary.
(c) Going to an elite private school where students were socially integrated.
(d) Failing to get along with his white father.

4. What did Patricia do when the author kept pestering her for toffee apples?
(a) She called the police.
(b) She bought him a toffee apple.
(c) She pretended to have never see him before.
(d) She beat him.

5. To what did Patricia attribute the fecal matter she discovered in her wastepaper basket?
(a) Temperance.
(b) A cat.
(c) Trevor.
(d) A demon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko go to school?

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

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

5. What unusual career move did Patricia make in the early 1980s?

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