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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Pages 15-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who used to visit Maureen in the yard with July?
(a) July’s sister.
(b) July’s girlfriend in town.
(c) July’s mother.
(d) July’s wife.

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

3. What do July’s daughters seem amazed at regarding July's situation in the city?
(a) July had a separate room to eat.
(b) July had a separate room to sleep.
(c) July had a separate room to bathe.
(d) July had a car.

4. What does July bring for Bam in Section 1?
(a) Wood.
(b) Water.
(c) A car.
(d) Meat.

5. What does Maureen become aware of in Section 2 that she is ignorant of in this village?
(a) The date.
(b) The order of the day.
(c) Family traditions.
(d) The year.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who warns Bam of an impending bank crisis?

2. When were July’s children conceived?

3. What does July’s wife experience for the first time when she meets Maureen?

4. What do both Maureen and Bam refuse from July at the beginning of the novel?

5. What did July’s wife give up for the Smalls?

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