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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which tribe does the author describe as "warriors"?

2. How does the author explain his remark that he and his mother "weren't just mother and son" (70)?

3. What did the school counselor warn the author about when he asked to transition into the B classes at H. A. Jack Primary?

4. Why was the author afraid to pray for God to kill the thing that left feces in his grandmother's house?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Trevor Noah yell at his mother after they ran from the mini-bus?

3. Why does Trevor Noah say that he was "born a crime" (26)?

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

5. How did Patricia handle disputes with the author once he was too old to be tricked?

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

7. What does the author say he has in common with the other children in Soweto during the story "Trevor, Pray"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the collection "Born a Crime," crime was a significant component of Trevor Noah's life. Write an essay analyzing the role that crime played in guiding the author's identity and what self-realizations crime led him to.

Essay Topic 2

According to the collection "Born a Crime," many languages are spoken in South Africa and Trevor Noah benefitted from knowing several of them growing up. Write an essay explaining the role that language plays in both creating and resolving conflicts through one or more stories in the collection.

Essay Topic 3

Spousal abuse is one the many forms of violence that are depicted in the collection "Born a Crime." Write an essay analyzing the author's rhetoric and attitudes concerning domestic violence and how domestic violence relates to other forms of violence depicted in the book.

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