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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, Pages 64-80.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do both Maureen and Bam refuse from July at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Tea.
(c) Milk.
(d) Coffee.

3. What does July say about Bam to Victor when he complains about the water?
(a) He is old.
(b) He is clever.
(c) He is cruel.
(d) He is unfair.

4. Who helps the Smalls escape their home at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Martha.
(b) Nora.
(c) July.
(d) Ellen.

5. Why does July's family have a difficult time understanding why he had to bring the Smalls?
(a) They believe the whites to be more powerful.
(b) They believe the whites to have family elsewhere.
(c) They believe the whites to have superior lives.
(d) They believe the whites to always have a home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is surprising about the photo of Maureen and Lydia?

2. Why do Bam and Maureen continue to listen to the radio?

3. What have the boys learned to do instead of us toilet paper?

4. What do Maureen and Bam fear their lives will become, as described in Section 1?

5. What makes the children happy, as nothing can?

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