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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, Pages 24-49.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bam’s profession?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Architect.
(c) Neuroscientist.
(d) Soldier.

2. What is happening politically, economically, and socially in the novel?
(a) Democracy is being challenged.
(b) Apartheid is being challenged.
(c) Blacks are being sold as slaves.
(d) Whites are being sold as slaves.

3. What is Martha particularly concerned about regarding July's situation with the Smalls in Section 2?
(a) He will run away.
(b) He will not be happy.
(c) He will no longer be paid.
(d) He will not be able to provide for the whites.

4. In Section 3, what has Maureen noticed about items in the village?
(a) They are expensive.
(b) They are handmade.
(c) They are stolen by July from her home.
(d) They are purchased by July.

5. Where does the photograph of Maureen and Lydia end up later in Life?
(a) In a magazine.
(b) In a story about white supremacists.
(c) In an ad against apartheid.
(d) In a Life book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maureen afraid of, in terms of the children and the water?

2. To whom is Maureen introduced in Section 2?

3. What is the real reason Bam and Maureen do not leave South Africa?

4. When were July’s children conceived?

5. In Section 2, what did July’s children see that Bam has in the hut?

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