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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a reason why the author lost touch with Robert when he was 13?
(a) Robert alienated him by sharing a dark secret.
(b) Patricia's husband, Abel, did not want Robert around.
(c) Robert had moved to Cape Town.
(d) The author was a teenager and was distracted by video games and computers.

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

3. What does the author indicate would probably happen if a black man had sex with a white woman under the apartheid system?
(a) The police would probably let them off with a warning.
(b) The police would not care at all.
(c) The white woman would probably be charged with rape.
(d) The black man would probably be charged with rape.

4. From what mental disorder did Temperance Noah suffer?
(a) Bipolar disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Obsessive Compulsive Disordr.
(d) Depression.

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

6. How did Patricia handle "major disputes" (84) with the author?
(a) She wrote extra-length letters.
(b) She got other members of the family to help argue with him.
(c) She insisted on arguing in Xhosa.
(d) She beat him.

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

8. How did Robert feel when Patricia asked him to impregnate her?
(a) He said he was not physically attracted to Patricia.
(b) He said he did not like Patricia at all.
(c) He said he did not want a family.
(d) He said he wanted to start a family right away.

9. Why was the author unable to play with his cousins when he was very young?
(a) Trevor was being punished.
(b) His grandmother was afraid the police would take him away.
(c) His grandmother was afraid the neighborhood children would steal him.
(d) His grandmother was afraid the cousins would be a bad influence on Trevor.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?
(a) Seeing his mother write "black" on a government census.
(b) Failing to get along with his white father.
(c) Going to an elite private school where students were socially integrated.
(d) Going to H. A. Jack Primary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the school counselor warn the author about when he asked to transition into the B classes at H. A. Jack Primary?

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

3. Why was the author difficult for his caretakers to handle when he was very little?

4. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?

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

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