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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, Pages 50-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who takes the bakke in Section 3?
(a) Bam and July.
(b) Royce and July.
(c) July and another man.
(d) Maureen and Bam.

3. What color is the Smalls' bakkie?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Orange.
(d) Yellow.

4. Why can’t the Smalls fly overseas?
(a) Rebels are shooting down the planes.
(b) They can’t reach the airport.
(c) The don’t have money.
(d) The planes are broken.

5. Where does July note that he was during his time away with the bakke?
(a) At the shops.
(b) At the chiefs.
(c) Back in town.
(d) At a farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed since Maureen and Bam left Johannesburg?

2. What does Maureen notice about the value of money to the villagers?

3. What is happening politically, economically, and socially in the novel?

4. What has Maureen learned to make appropriately by Section 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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