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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is shouted in the courtroom after Lionel Burger speaks?
(a) Amen.
(b) Alonga, Amonga.
(c) Awetha, Amandhla.
(d) Burger, Burger.

2. What did the trial after the strike allow the government to do?
(a) Get Lionel Burger ousted from the Communist Party.
(b) Shut down the African Mineworkers Union.
(c) Stop underground operations.
(d) Pass the Supression of Communism Act.

3. What does Rosa do for a living after she leaves the hospital?
(a) She works for a trade journal.
(b) She works at the train station.
(c) She works on a farm.
(d) She works in a retail store.

4. What is the last trial in which Cathy and Lionel stand accused together?
(a) The Riotous Trial of 1955.
(b) The Treason Trial of 1957.
(c) The Strikers Trial of 1956.
(d) The Communist Party Trial of 1957.

5. Why is the group knocking at the prison door in the opening pages of the novel?
(a) They came for visiting hour.
(b) They came to revolt.
(c) They came to complain.
(d) They were promised they could deliver supplies to their loved ones.

6. What does Greer do with the dinner he is given at Fats'?
(a) He eats it voraciously.
(b) He shares it with the little ones.
(c) He pushes the food around his plate.
(d) He ignores it completely.

7. Why has Lionel been imprisoned?
(a) For treason.
(b) For theft.
(c) For fighting against apartheid.
(d) For attmepting to overthrow the government.

8. Who is Lily?
(a) She is Mrs. Burger's colleague.
(b) She is Rosa's girlhood friend.
(c) She is the servant of the Burger's.
(d) She is a neighbor of the Burgers'.

9. Who pulls Tony out of the pool?
(a) Lily.
(b) Lionel.
(c) Cathy.
(d) Conrad.

10. What does Conrad tell Rosa about her future?
(a) That she too will go to jail.
(b) That she will die for her cause.
(c) That she will help bring change.
(d) That she will live differently than her parents did.

11. What is Lionel Burger's profession?
(a) He is a politician.
(b) He is a professor.
(c) He is a lawyer.
(d) He is a doctor.

12. What does Rosa understand about political change?
(a) It comes at a great cost.
(b) It only happens after many failures.
(c) It doesn't ever happen.
(d) It is only a battle for the very strong.

13. What is Rosa doing in the public square?
(a) Kissing a young man.
(b) Eating her lunch.
(c) Playing with two boys.
(d) Reading a book.

14. What does Clare want from Rosa when she goes to her apartment to see her?
(a) She wants Rosa to make copies for the cause.
(b) She wants Rosa to join the revolt.
(c) She wants Rosa to protest with her.
(d) She wants Rosa to get the key to the copy room at work.

15. How do the Sunday dinners at the Burgers' house come about?
(a) From Lionel and Cathy's involvment with Marisa's group.
(b) From the white sociability of the invitation.
(c) From the insistence of Marie Burger.
(d) From the black sociability of joining the family evening meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Noel de Witt want to become for his career?

2. Why do Rosa and Marcus go to Cape Town?

3. At age fourteen, what does Lionel come to realize about the blacks and whites?

4. What happens to the cottage that Rosa once lived in with Conrad?

5. What does Daniel tell Rosa about one of his boys?

(see the answer keys)

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