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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Fufi" - "Robert".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?
(a) His friend wrote a bad word and blamed it on the author.
(b) They wrote their names in the side of the house and got in trouble.
(c) They accidentally burned down the author's friend's house.
(d) The author and his friend started a moderately successful wood furnishing business.

2. What nationality is listed on the author's birth certificate?
(a) Swiss.
(b) Xhosa.
(c) Swazi.
(d) South African.

3. What unusual career move did Patricia make in the early 1980s?
(a) She started working in a factory.
(b) She became a chiropractor.
(c) She became a housekeeper.
(d) She became a secretary.

4. What does the name Nombuyiselo mean?
(a) "She who popped out of nowhere."
(b) "A builder of ships."
(c) "She who gives back."
(d) "The Fixer."

5. Which of the following is NOT a language that Patricia taught to the author?
(a) Tsonga.
(b) Xhosa.
(c) English.
(d) Afrikaans.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?

4. From what mental disorder did Temperance Noah suffer?

5. What did the author do to get to know his father better after their reunion in Cape Town?

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