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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The World Doesn’t Love You” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the police ask the author when he was called in for questioning regarding the stolen chocolate?
(a) They asked whether he knew if Teddy had any white friends.
(b) They asked why he and Teddy stole the chocolates.
(c) They asked him to submit to a blood-alcohol test.
(d) They asked if he knew where Teddy had gone.

2. What was the only part of a person's home that could not be improved in Soweto?
(a) The walls.
(b) The driveway.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The ceiling.

3. On what does the author blame most of the things that have gone wrong in his life?
(a) Second-hand cars.
(b) Fear.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) The death of his mother.

4. Why were the homes in Highlands North surrounded by six-foot-tall electrified walls?
(a) The walls were not electrified; that was just something Patricia told the author so that he would stop trying to climb them.
(b) The homeowner's association was run by a security specialist.
(c) The white residents feared black South Africans.
(d) Highlands North was a government facility, housing top-secret agents.

5. Why would people in Alexandra sometimes clasp their wrists together?
(a) To signal that they needed peace and quiet.
(b) To begin a yoga session.
(c) To indicate that someone had been arrested.
(d) To ask what time it was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author discover in a stolen object, causing him to rethink his life of crime as described in the story "The Cheese Boys"?

2. How did Zaheera feel about the author?

3. What did the extremely muscular Tsona-speaking man do to end up in jail?

4. Who paid for the author's lawyer and bail money?

5. How did the author feel about Maylene before Valentine's Day?

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