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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what country did the author grow up?
(a) South America.
(b) North Africa.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Nigeria.

2. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?
(a) She threw him out of the vehicle.
(b) She bribed the men into leaving them alone.
(c) She beat the men senseless.
(d) She threatened the men into leaving them alone.

3. Where did Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko go to school?
(a) Government-run Bantu schools.
(b) They went to school over seas.
(c) They did not go to school.
(d) Schools founded by British missionaries.

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

5. 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) Failing to get along with his white father.
(d) Going to an elite private school where students were socially integrated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which racial group was most common in Soweto, according to the author?

2. What was the only part of a person's home that could not be improved in Soweto?

3. What were the two main things Patricia would spend money on when her son was growing up?

4. Why was Patricia allowed to stay on the farm at age nine?

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

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