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

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

3. What did the author have in common with his friend, Teddy?
(a) They both had buck teeth.
(b) They were both considered trouble makers.
(c) They knew each other from Soweto.
(d) They both had Swiss fathers.

4. To whom does the author refer when he talks about "domestics" in the story "Colorblind"?
(a) White suburbanites who only drink domestic beer.
(b) White suburbanite housewives.
(c) Anyone who is not a member of a militia.
(d) Domestic servants and their families.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the mothers of Alexandra feel about the author and his fellow "cheese boys"?

2. How did the security footage distort the author's appearance after he and Teddy stole from the store?

3. What tribe was native to South Africa when it was first colonized by Europeans?

4. Why was the author allowed to bond with the more popular boys during grade 9?

5. How did the author know Tom and Bongani?

Short Essay Questions

1. What attribute of the author's aided him in his business fetching lunch for people but also prevented his romantic success?

2. What geographical explanation does the author give when he states that "it's physically impossible for [Alexandra] to change" (201)?

3. What niche did the author find at Sandingham high school during lunch time?

4. What difference does the author see between German education around the Holocaust and South African education around apartheid?

5. According to the foreword of the story "Outsider," what was the most embarrassing part of the author's life?

6. How was the author eventually able to make friends at Highlands North?

7. Why did the author think it made sense for Mayelene to leave him and date Lorenzo instead?

8. How was the author able to pose as an American rapper for the talent show in Hammanskraal?

9. Why could none of the police recognize the author in the security footage?

10. Which racial group accepted the author as soon as he enrolled in Sandingham High School?

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