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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. How did the author react as a child when children in the neighborhood called him white?
(a) He thought they had their colors confused.
(b) He was proud.
(c) He thought they were racists.
(d) He was worried.

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

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

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

5. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?
(a) He converted to Catholicism.
(b) He called the owners of the school racist.
(c) He apologized for the misunderstanding.
(d) He asked if Jesus, being Jewish, would also be denied the right of communion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?

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

3. Who taught Patricia how to navigate Johannesburg without being deported to the Bantustans?

4. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?

5. What reason did Patricia give when the author asked why they did not move to Switzerland?

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