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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Fufi" - "Robert".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To what was Patricia referring when she spoke of "the black tax" (66)?
(a) The tendency of white employers to illegally steal the wages of black employees during apartheid.
(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) An official government tax paid only by black people.
2. Who threw the author from a moving vehicle when he was a young boy?
(a) A policeman.
(b) His father.
(c) A bank robber.
(d) His mother.
3. What does the author say is impressive about the timing of his mother's decision to have him?
(a) She chose to have him at a time when the world's population was increasing.
(b) She chose to have him even though it would have been very expensive at the time.
(c) She chose to have him before she knew apartheid would end.
(d) She chose to have him even though she could still remember her mistreatment by the hands of her own family.
4. When does the author believe that a person is most themselves, according to the story "Pray, Trevor"?
(a) When defecating.
(b) When working.
(c) When looking into the eyes of a loved one.
(d) When suffering.
5. Which tribe does the author describe as "thinkers"?
(a) The Tswana.
(b) The Sotho.
(c) The Xhosa.
(d) The Zulu.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?
2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why the author lost touch with Robert when he was 13?
3. What unusual career move did Patricia make in the early 1980s?
4. Why was the author afraid to pray for God to kill the thing that left feces in his grandmother's house?
5. How did arguments between the author and his mother change after the author turned eight?
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