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

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

3. The children of Soweto would yell out "indoda yomlungu!" whenever they passed the author. What does this phrase mean?
(a) "Look out!"
(b) "Hey, buddy!"
(c) "I hate that kid!"
(d) "The white man!"

4. What did the author believe about the dog Fufi before the vet looked at Fufi's corpse?
(a) He believed Fufi was stupid.
(b) He believed Fufi was the kindest dog in the world.
(c) He believed Fufi was stoic.
(d) He believed Fufi was a genius.

5. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?
(a) His friend wrote a bad word and blamed it on the author.
(b) They accidentally burned down the author's friend's house.
(c) The author and his friend started a moderately successful wood furnishing business.
(d) They wrote their names in the side of the house and got in trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Frances Noah refuse to beat the author when the author was a little boy?

2. What does the author indicate would probably happen if a black man had sex with a white woman under the apartheid system?

3. How did the shopkeeper in the story "Chameleon" respond when Patricia proved she could understand Afrikaans?

4. What was unusual about the steakhouse that Robert opened?

5. Why was the author surprised when Patricia insisted that he go see his father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah name her son "Trevor"?

3. How did South African schools founded by British missionaries differ from Bantu schools founded by Afrikaners, according to the author?

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

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

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

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

8. What reasons does the author give for saying it was a "lie" (64) that the tribal homelands of South Africa were a place where native South Africans could be free?

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

10. How did Robert, the author's father, feel about apartheid?

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