1. According to the author, what did the name "Hitler" connote to black South Africans in the area and time where the author grew up?
(a) It connoted a deep lack of patriotism.
(b) It connoted toughness.
(c) It connoted a bawdy sense of humor.
(d) It connoted racial animosity.

2. What happened between the author and the pack of colored boys under the mulberry tree in Eden Park?
(a) They shared their berries with him.
(b) They ate his berries right in front of him.
(c) They made him help them burn down the tree.
(d) They called him "Bushman" and pelted him with berries.

3. How did the author feel about Maylene before Valentine's Day?
(a) He was madly in love with her.
(b) He thought she was cool and fun to hang out with.
(c) He hated her.
(d) He had never heard of her.

4. To what does the author compare Patricia when he describes her skill for maximizing petrol?
(a) A manual laborer.
(b) A madwoman.
(c) The sophisticates stop-start system used in hybrid cars.
(d) A miser.

5. What was the "pencil test" that the government administered to some colored people in South Africa?
(a) A literacy test that colored people had to pass in order to vote in South African elections.
(b) A measurement of a worker's strength determined by how large a bundle of pencils they could break with their bare hands.
(c) A test to determine whiteness, based on whether a pencil would stay in place if stuck in one's hair.
(d) A written test that, if passed, qualified a colored person to be reclassified as white.