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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Patricia make the author push her car?
(a) She wanted to help the author become strong.
(b) The car was broken.
(c) She was punishing the author.
(d) She wanted to maximize fuel.

2. What does the author mean when he says that Babiki and her family were amabhujua?
(a) He means that they were poor but spent money on expensive luxuries.
(b) He means that they knew secret shamanic traditions.
(c) He means that they were partially descended from Europeans.
(d) He means that they were extremely skilled accountants.

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

4. Why did the author perform at the Hammanskraal talent show?
(a) He wanted to show off how many languages he could speak.
(b) He had some new stand-up comedy material to try out.
(c) He had been challenged to play the ukulele as a dare.
(d) His friend Tom had promised them he was the famous hip hop hype man, Spliff Star.

5. How did the mothers of Alexandra feel about the author and his fellow "cheese boys"?
(a) Mothers feared the cheese boys.
(b) Mothers hated the cheese boys.
(c) Mothers were some of their best customers.
(d) Mothers knew nothing of the cheese boys' antics.

6. How did the author first respond in his trial when he thought the judge asked him how he was?
(a) He said he was doing great.
(b) He said he was feeling relaxed.
(c) He mockingly repeated the question.
(d) He said he was not fine.

7. What did the girls in the author's grade want him to do for Valentine's Day?
(a) They wanted him to dress as cupid.
(b) They wanted him to teach their boyfriends to dance.
(c) They wanted the author to ask out his friend, Maylene.
(d) They wanted him to make them all valentines.

8. How did the author know Tom and Bongani?
(a) They were his mentors at school.
(b) They worked for him.
(c) They were his principal's sons.
(d) They were his brothers.

9. When did the author decide to reveal his crush on Zaheera?
(a) Over the winter holiday.
(b) While Zaheera was driving to the airport.
(c) At the matric dance.
(d) During a telephone call.

10. How did Zaheera feel about the author?
(a) She hated him.
(b) She thought of him as just a friend.
(c) She liked him back and secretly wished that he would ask her out.
(d) She did not know that he existed.

11. Which pop culture character did the author use as inspiration for putting together his outfit for the matric dance?
(a) George Brady, from The Brady Bunch.
(b) Baron Samedi, from Live and Let Die.
(c) The Fonz, from Happy Days.
(d) Neo, from The Matrix.

12. In the foreword to "Go Hitler!," the author says that the historical education offered in South Africa is similar to what other country?
(a) America.
(b) Australia.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

13. What did the author find inappropriate about the relationship advice Patricia gave him when he was a child?
(a) He thought Patricia's advice was naive.
(b) He thought Patricia's advice was too religious.
(c) He thought that Patricia's advice was suited to adult relationships rather than children's relationships.
(d) He thought Patricia's advice was heteronormative.

14. Why did the author have trouble fitting in with his white classmates at Sandingham?
(a) Their parents forbade them from hanging out with him.
(b) They only wanted to listen to grunge rock.
(c) They were always doing things that required spending money.
(d) They could not understand him when he spoke.

15. What happened before the author could ask Zaheera out?
(a) She moved to America.
(b) She married her boyfriend, Gary.
(c) She was captured by Zulu extremists.
(d) The author was sentenced to work in the salt mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Abel respond when the author told him what happened under the mulberry tree?

2. How does the author describe his dating life when he was in grade 9 at Sandingham?

3. With whom did Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah want the author to hang out instead of his friends from Alexandra?

4. What did Bongani reveal to the author about Babiki after everyone came out of the dance to look at her?

5. What did the police officer want when he arrested the author and his friends at the end of the story "The Cheese Boys"?

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