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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maureen notice about the value of money to the villagers?
(a) It has significant meaning.
(b) It has little meaning.
(c) It means more than life.
(d) They don’t know what money is.

2. What does Maureen realize the people in town will see about July?
(a) His new wealth.
(b) His new clothes.
(c) His possession of the bakke.
(d) His possession of money.

3. What does Maureen become aware of in Section 2 that she is ignorant of in this village?
(a) The order of the day.
(b) Family traditions.
(c) The year.
(d) The date.

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

5. Where did Maureen obtain the malaria drugs she and Bam take?
(a) She bought them in town.
(b) She looted them.
(c) She got them from July.
(d) She got them from Ellen.

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

7. What object does Bam not keep in his home?
(a) A knife.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Servants.
(d) A revolver.

8. What does Maureen send Royce to tell July in Section 5?
(a) That she wants him to go to town.
(b) That she wants him to come see her.
(c) That she is angry with him.
(d) That she wants her keys back.

9. What does July’s wife experience for the first time when she meets Maureen?
(a) She’s never seen a white.
(b) She’s never heard English.
(c) The touching of white skin.
(d) The meeting of a white woman.

10. In Section 3, what has Maureen noticed about items in the village?
(a) They are purchased by July.
(b) They are expensive.
(c) They are stolen by July from her home.
(d) They are handmade.

11. What does Bam help July build in Section 3?
(a) A stable.
(b) A new hut.
(c) A water tank.
(d) A well.

12. In Section 5, what does Maureen wonder about the town woman?
(a) Whether she has children.
(b) Whether she loves July.
(c) Whether she is married.
(d) Whether July loves her.

13. Why is Bam really angry with July in Section 4?
(a) For his anger.
(b) For stealing their things.
(c) For his spite.
(d) For taking the car keys.

14. What did Maureen’s father do for a living?
(a) He was a shift boss in the mines.
(b) He was a servant.
(c) He was an architect.
(d) He was a lawyer.

15. Why do the blacks not kill the warthogs?
(a) They don’t know how.
(b) They have no guns.
(c) They don’t know they exist.
(d) They don’t believe in eating meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes the bakke in Section 3?

2. What does Maureen understand must be balanced in black affairs?

3. What color is the Smalls' bakkie?

4. Where does the photograph of Maureen and Lydia end up later in Life?

5. What does Maureen realize about herself when she bathes in Section 1?

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