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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crime did the author's parents commit when they had him?
(a) They hired an off-the-books midwife to deliver him.
(b) They kidnapped him from his real parents.
(c) They each had intercourse with a person of another race.
(d) They illegally crossed the border to have him in Swaziland.

2. What was unusual about the steakhouse that Robert opened?
(a) It was racially integrated.
(b) It put on a talent show where the author performed every night.
(c) They served zebra steaks.
(d) It only served Indian people.

3. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?
(a) "I was like her savior."
(b) "We never got along at all."
(c) "We were a team."
(d) "She was like my boss."

4. How did the author track Robert down after his mother instructed him to do so?
(a) He contacted the Swiss embassy.
(b) He consulted a local shaman.
(c) He searched Cape Town on foot.
(d) He released an ad in the newspaper.

5. What does the author say is impressive about the timing of his mother's decision to have him?
(a) She chose to have him before she knew apartheid would end.
(b) She chose to have him even though she could still remember her mistreatment by the hands of her own family.
(c) She chose to have him at a time when the world's population was increasing.
(d) She chose to have him even though it would have been very expensive at the time.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did the author think it was ironic when a black security guard was convicted of animal abuse for killing a cat on live TV?

4. What did Robert show the author after the author tracked him down in Cape Town?

5. Where did Abel go after he was forced to move out of the home of the white family he lived with?

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