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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Robert show the author after the author tracked him down in Cape Town?
(a) A photo album tracking the author's career.
(b) A shiny new car.
(c) An old family photo album of Robert's past.
(d) A forged birth certificate accurately listing Robert as the author's father.

2. What reason did Patricia give when the author asked why they did not move to Switzerland?
(a) She did not want to leave South Africa.
(b) She believed South Africa was too good for them.
(c) Switzerland would be even worse.
(d) Switzerland refused to accept them.

3. How did the author react as a child when children in the neighborhood called him white?
(a) He thought they had their colors confused.
(b) He was proud.
(c) He was worried.
(d) He thought they were racists.

4. Why does the author compare Patricia to a "guerilla fighter" (84)?
(a) She fought for what she believed in.
(b) She disliked the great apes and, growing up, the author did not know the difference between a "guerilla fighter" and a "gorilla fighter."
(c) She was extremely proficient with improvised explosives.
(d) She was too slow to catch him for a whooping so she had to get her attacks in on the fly.

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

6. How did the author respond when he found out that he could not take communion because he was not Catholic?
(a) He converted to Catholicism.
(b) He apologized for the misunderstanding.
(c) He called the owners of the school racist.
(d) He asked if Jesus, being Jewish, would also be denied the right of communion.

7. What predominately Zulu political group violently opposed the African National Congress after the end of apartheid?
(a) The National Socialists.
(b) The Sotho.
(c) The Xhosa.
(d) The Inkatha.

8. What did the vet reveal to the author about his dog, Fufi, after she died?
(a) Fufi had been pregnant.
(b) Fufi was actually a coyote.
(c) Fufi was deaf.
(d) Fufi died of natural causes.

9. Why was the author surprised when Patricia insisted that he go see his father?
(a) The author and his father had not spoken in ten years and the author assumed they would never speak again.
(b) The author did not know who his father was.
(c) Patricia hated the author's father.
(d) The author thought his father was dead.

10. Why was Patricia allowed to stay on the farm at age nine?
(a) She was kept on the farm to work.
(b) Her aunt kept her on the farm to keep an eye on her.
(c) Her aunt kept her on the farm to protect her from their parents.
(d) Her aunt kept her on the farm out of the kindness of her heart.

11. Why was the author difficult for his caretakers to handle when he was very little?
(a) He did not speak the same language as any of them.
(b) He was hyperactive and very hungry.
(c) He was smelly.
(d) He was cruel.

12. What answer did Patricia give when the author asked her why she chose to give birth to him?
(a) She wanted someone that would love her whom she could love in return.
(b) She had him by accident.
(c) She had him to spite the apartheid regime.
(d) She had him out of love for his father.

13. How did the author view the "destructive" (79) antics from his youth?
(a) He was not destructive at all, he just got a bad rap because of his racial identity.
(b) He had an insatiable desire to see the world burn.
(c) He was creating chaos to see how people reacted.
(d) He wanted vengeance on those that wronged him.

14. When was the Immorality Act passed?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1927.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how do black people treat dogs in South Africa?

2. Which of the following is NOT a language that Patricia taught to the author?

3. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?

4. What did Patricia do after discovering the fecal matter in the trashcan?

5. From what mental disorder did Temperance Noah suffer?

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