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

2. What does Maureen understand must be balanced in black affairs?
(a) Desire and duty.
(b) Money and desire.
(c) Duty and love.
(d) Love and money.

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

4. What is July’s reaction to the medication his wife gave Maureen?
(a) He tells her not to use it.
(b) He tells her to sell it.
(c) He tells her to throw it away.
(d) He tells her to take it.

5. What does Royce continue to ask to do in Section 3?
(a) Go to movies.
(b) Go to school.
(c) Go home.
(d) Eat meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does July’s mother eventually do as she carries wood in Section 5?

2. What does Maureen keep secret from Bam in Section 4?

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

4. Why does Maureen not enter July’s hut?

5. When were July’s children conceived?

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