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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diagnosis did the school psychologists give the author after he laughed while being corporally punished?
(a) None-they determined he was mentally normal.
(b) They diagnosed him with bipolar disorder.
(c) They diagnosed him with ADHD.
(d) They diagnosed him with sociopathy.

2. Who was the only member of the author's family who was willing to use corporal punishment on him?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

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

4. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?
(a) "We never got along at all."
(b) "She was like my boss."
(c) "We were a team."
(d) "I was like her savior."

5. What did Patricia do when the author kept pestering her for toffee apples?
(a) She called the police.
(b) She bought him a toffee apple.
(c) She pretended to have never see him before.
(d) She beat him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Robert's steakhouse close?

2. Who did the author accuse of tricking his mother into going to church the day they were threatened in the minibus?

3. According to the author, how do white people treat dogs in South Africa?

4. What nationality is listed on the author's birth certificate?

5. How did Robert feel when Patricia asked him to impregnate her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a veterinarian reveal to the author about his dog, Fufi, after her death?

2. What major historical event happened when Trevor Noah was 5 or 6 and was referred to as the "Bloodless Revolution"?

3. Where did the Afrikaners find inspiration when designing the apartheid system?

4. Why were Japanese people classified as being white under apartheid?

5. Why did Patricia believe that a demon was in her house?

6. How did Patricia react when the author was punished for stealing the eucharist?

7. How did the young Trevor Noah explain the comparative length of black church services compared to white church services?

8. Why did Frances Noah refuse to beat the author whenever the author misbehaved growing up?

9. According to the author, why are black people in South Africa suspicious of cats?

10. Who did the author credit with keeping communities together in Soweto during apartheid?

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