2. Who does Absalom claim planned the time and place for the house break?
(a) Absalom himself.
(b) Johannes Pafuri.
(c) Matthew Kumalo.
(d) Richard Mpiring.

3. Which of the following is NOT a reason Arthur mentions in his paper that whites need to take responsibility for helping blacks?
(a) Because of blacks’ inferior intelligence and inability to help themselves.
(b) Because whites destroyed blacks’ tribal life in the first place.
(c) Because whites have actively suppressed the education of blacks out of fear.
(d) Because people who consider themselves Christians should not subjugate others in the name of God’s will.

4. What natural phenomenon is afflicting Umzimkulu valley when Kumalo returns home?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Forest fires.
(c) Drought.
(d) Monsoons.

5. Who does James Jarvis surprise with a large financial donation to further the cause of blacks?
(a) John Kumalo.
(b) John Harrison, Jr.
(c) Msimangu.
(d) Stephen Kumalo.

6. What time of day will Absalom be executed?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Noon.

7. Which sacrament is performed immediately following the sentencing in the prison?
(a) Communion.
(b) Matrimony.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Last Rites.

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

9. What is James Jarvis’ main concern before learning of his son’s death?
(a) He is concerned that local blacks are constantly begging for food.
(b) He is concerned because there is a drought.
(c) He is concerned because a mysterious disease is killing his cattle.
(d) He is concerned that the government is trying to buy his land to mine.

10. 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.

11. What is the agricultural demonstrator’s attitude toward white people?
(a) He wishes they would give blacks their own nation and leave them alone.
(b) He sympathizes with the fear whites have built for themselves and hopes to work directly with them toward better racial understanding.
(c) He is bitter that blacks must rely on whites for assistance when whites suppressed them in the first place.
(d) He is grateful for their assistance in lifting blacks up.

12. How do the Jarvises travel to Johannesburg?
(a) By private car.
(b) By plane.
(c) By train.
(d) By bus.

13. From which province do both Kumalo and Jarvis come?
(a) Natal.
(b) Gauteng.
(c) Transvaal.
(d) Cape.

14. Where does Kumalo keep vigil during Absalom’s execution?
(a) The Jarvis fields.
(b) Up a mountain.
(c) Deep into the forest.
(d) By the sea.

15. What does Absalom claim is the reason he did not simply turn himself in to the police?
(a) He believed the police mainly suspected someone else.
(b) He was too afraid to confess even though he intended to.
(c) He believed he was well enough hidden that the police would never find him.
(d) He thought if he left Johannesburg no one would bother to hunt him down.