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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. Why was the author difficult for his caretakers to handle when he was very little?
(a) He did not speak the same language as any of them.
(b) He was smelly.
(c) He was hyperactive and very hungry.
(d) He was cruel.

2. Why does the author compare Patricia to a "guerilla fighter" (84)?
(a) She was extremely proficient with improvised explosives.
(b) She disliked the great apes and, growing up, the author did not know the difference between a "guerilla fighter" and a "gorilla fighter."
(c) She fought for what she believed in.
(d) She was too slow to catch him for a whooping so she had to get her attacks in on the fly.

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

4. Who did the author accuse of tricking his mother into going to church the day they were threatened in the minibus?
(a) He accused God.
(b) Trevor claimed that he tricked her himself.
(c) He claimed that the pastor tricked his mother.
(d) He accused the Devil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the author afraid to pray for God to kill the thing that left feces in his grandmother's house?

2. What did Patricia do when the author kept pestering her for toffee apples?

3. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?

4. Where did Patricia move at age nine?

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

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