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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the white man murdered?
(a) He was murdered in his own home.
(b) He was murdered on the street.
(c) He was murdered at the gold mines.
(d) He was murdered while working with poor blacks.

2. After meeting with Absalom’s girl, how does Kumalo feel about the prospects for the future?
(a) He feels completely optimistic.
(b) He feels exactly the same.
(c) He feels pessimistic.
(d) He feels a little bit of weight lifted from his shoulders.

3. How long is the waiting list for a new house in Orlando?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Eight years.

4. What is the verdict for Absalom’s two accomplices?
(a) The Judge finds insufficient evidence to convict either of them and lets them go free.
(b) The Judge finds one guilty of assault and sends him to twenty years in prison while allowing the other to go free.
(c) The Judge finds them guilty of house breaking and sentences them to ten years prison.
(d) The Judge makes them as culpable as Absalom in Arthur Jarvis’ murder and sentences them to death.

5. Which of the following is NOT something the white reformatory worker tells Kumalo about Absalom’s recent experiences?
(a) Absalom rose to head boy at the reformatory.
(b) Absalom got a girl pregnant.
(c) Absalom was holding a steady job at a factory.
(d) Absalom had decided to become a reverend like his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is MOST impressed by John Kumalo’s oratorical gifts?

2. What vocation does Gertrude think she would like to try?

3. What hardship did Absalom’s girl suffer as a child?

4. Msimangu ministers to a community of people who suffer from which of the following?

5. What is the profession of the murdered white man?

(see the answer key)

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