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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. What vocation does Gertrude think she would like to try?
(a) She wants to be a secretary.
(b) She wants to be a nurse.
(c) She wants to be a teacher.
(d) She wants to be a nun.

2. Mrs. Lithebe is afraid which character will be a bad influence on Absalom’s girl?
(a) Mrs. Mkize.
(b) Mr. Carmichael.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Absalom.

3. How does Absalom’s girl react when Kumalo tells her she will have to leave Johannesburg if she marries Absalom?
(a) She demands financial compensation for the inconvenience.
(b) She wants to put her baby up for adoption instead.
(c) She is pleased at the idea of a quiet, rural life.
(d) She sulks and wishes to break off the engagement.

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 them guilty of house breaking and sentences them to ten years prison.
(c) The Judge finds one guilty of assault and sends him to twenty years in prison while allowing the other to go free.
(d) The Judge makes them as culpable as Absalom in Arthur Jarvis’ murder and sentences them to death.

5. What was the murdered man most well-known for?
(a) He spoke and wrote publicly for equal rights for blacks.
(b) He advocated for a separate nation for blacks.
(c) He had married a black woman.
(d) He was a rising local politician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does Father Vincent come from?

2. Where was the white man murdered?

3. Which of the following worry that John Kumalo’s speech to black miners could lead to an uprising?

4. Which of the following does the black woman NOT lament?

5. Which character is angriest that Absalom has disappeared?

(see the answer key)

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