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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8, Pages 108-121.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is understood by July's girlfriend in the city to be July’s responsibilities?
(a) His children at home.
(b) His employer.
(c) His children in various places.
(d) His children in town.

3. What is surprising about the photo of Maureen and Lydia?
(a) They are both black.
(b) They are both white.
(c) They are holding hands.
(d) Their roles of servant and master are clear.

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

5. What does July’s mother eventually do as she carries wood in Section 5?
(a) Crawl on the ground.
(b) Faint.
(c) Ask for help.
(d) Give up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maureen believe about July as he addresses her and Bam in Section 4?

2. What does the chief want Bam to do to help him?

3. Who helps the Smalls escape their home at the beginning of the novel?

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

5. What 'medication' does Maureen get from Martha in Section 4?

(see the answer key)

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