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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 happened to the cats that Patricia adopted after moving to Eden Park?
(a) They were mutilated.
(b) They ran away.
(c) They had too many kittens.
(d) They got sick and had to be put down.

2. How did arguments between the author and his mother change after the author turned eight?
(a) Their arguments became nastier and more personal.
(b) They began to argue in writing instead of in person.
(c) They stopped arguing altogether.
(d) They started arguing about more mature topics.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Patricia handle "major disputes" (84) with the author?

2. Why did the author cry after he and Patricia retrieved Fufi?

3. To what was Patricia referring when she spoke of "the black tax" (66)?

4. How did the author react as a child when children in the neighborhood called him white?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Trevor Noah say the township of Soweto only has two roads leading in and out?

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

4. What did the author realize about his racial identity after he started attending H. A. Jack Primary?

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

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

7. How does the author describe the prevalence of traditional South African beliefs in the foreword to the story, "Trevor, Pray"?

8. What did the author discover about Fufi when he was home alone for the holidays?

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

10. Why did the author call his father "Robert" when he was a child?

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