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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hardship did Absalom’s girl suffer as a child?
(a) Her mother was sent to a mental asylum.
(b) Her mother died when she was a baby.
(c) Her mother was an alcoholic.
(d) Her mother beat her daily.

2. Which of the following is John’s main political agenda?
(a) He wants blacks to separate and form their own country.
(b) He wants complete equal rights for blacks.
(c) He wants blacks to have the right to vote.
(d) He wants better wages for blacks working in the gold mines.

3. What is Absalom’s attitude in jail?
(a) He is self-righteous and proud.
(b) He is stoic.
(c) He is full of self-pity.
(d) He is defiant.

4. Who does Stephen Kumalo receive a letter from in the opening pages of the novel?
(a) Absalom.
(b) John.
(c) Msimangu.
(d) Gertrude.

5. How does Kumalo torture Absalom’s girl at first out of his disgust for her previous lifestyle?
(a) He tells her she must give the baby to him to raise with his wife while she remains in Johannesburg.
(b) He tells her he knows Absalom is not the baby’s father and they bear no responsibility for it.
(c) He tells her she must sleep with him if she wants to be looked after.
(d) He tells her Absalom has refused to marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does John Harrison, Sr. hope will happen when the murderer is caught?

2. What other weapon was carried by one of the two accomplices?

3. What does Mrs. Ndlela tell Kumalo and Msimangu about Absalom that concerns them?

4. Which adjectives does Mrs. Lithebe use to describe the people she thinks Gertrude should not spend time with?

5. What gesture of respect does Arthur Jarvis’ son show Kumalo because he does not know any better about his implied superiority?

(see the answer key)

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