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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author cry after he and Patricia retrieved Fufi?
(a) He cried because Fufi loved another boy.
(b) He cried because Fufi bit him.
(c) He cried because Patricia was so impatient with him.
(d) He cried because the other boy gave him a vicious cussing out.

2. Who was the most consistent male figure in the author's life growing up?
(a) His father, Robert.
(b) His uncle, Dinky.
(c) His grandfather, Temperance.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

3. At the end of the foreword to the story "Born a Crime," the author wrote that apartheid would be easy for occupants of which country to understand?
(a) Costa Rica.
(b) America.
(c) England.
(d) Nigeria.

4. What diagnosis did the school psychologists give the author after he laughed while being corporally punished?
(a) They diagnosed him with bipolar disorder.
(b) They diagnosed him with sociopathy.
(c) They diagnosed him with ADHD.
(d) None-they determined he was mentally normal.

5. Who threw the author from a moving vehicle when he was a young boy?
(a) His father.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A bank robber.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the author believe about the dog Fufi before the vet looked at Fufi's corpse?

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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