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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, Pages 91-107.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Maureen avoid reading the only book she has?
(a) She knows that when she reads it, there are no others.
(b) She hates reading.
(c) She doesn’t want to know the ending.
(d) She can’t read it because it is in Italian.

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

4. What does Bam ask about Maureen’s actions with the small animals born in their hut?
(a) Why she didn’t shoot them.
(b) Why she didn’t give them away.
(c) Why she didn’t have one of the villagers do it.
(d) Why she did it.

5. What does Bam promise Victor, if he stays home from hunting?
(a) The flank.
(b) The feet.
(c) The skin.
(d) The head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the old woman become angry with July in Section 2?

2. What does Royce continue to ask to do in Section 3?

3. What do July’s daughters seem amazed at regarding July's situation in the city?

4. What is Bam not aware of when he shows the gun to the villagers?

5. What surprises July’s wife about Maureen upon first meeting her?

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