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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 have the boys learned to do instead of us toilet paper?
(a) Wipe their bottoms with rags.
(b) Wipe their bottoms with stones.
(c) Wipe their bottoms with leaves.
(d) Rinse in the river water.

2. How much time has passed since Maureen and Bam left Johannesburg?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four days.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six months.

3. What does Bam mean when he notes that “women are cowards”?
(a) He means women choose to strike when men are at their weakest.
(b) He means women are manipulative.
(c) He means women choose to strike when they are at their strongest.
(d) He means women are weak.

4. What makes the children happy, as nothing can?
(a) Volleyball.
(b) Buying things.
(c) Driving.
(d) Hunting.

5. What does July bring the Smalls at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Tea.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Water.
(d) Cola.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does July’s son realize in Section 2, that the others do not?

2. Why can’t the Smalls fly overseas?

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

4. What is Bam’s profession?

5. When were July’s children conceived?

(see the answer key)

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