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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much time has passed since Maureen and Bam left Johannesburg?
(a) Four days.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

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

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

5. What has Maureen learned to make appropriately by Section 4?
(a) Meal.
(b) Warthog.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Spinach.

6. Who does Bam meet that would like to use the gun?
(a) Daniel.
(b) John.
(c) Alex.
(d) Victor.

7. What does July offer to bring Maureen instead of the medication his wife offered?
(a) A new mixture.
(b) A thermometer.
(c) A blanket and cold medicine.
(d) More wood.

8. In Section 1, where are the children sleeping, once in the hut?
(a) Beds.
(b) The floor.
(c) Hammocks.
(d) Car seats.

9. In Section 2, what did July’s children see that Bam has in the hut?
(a) A knife.
(b) A cat.
(c) A gun.
(d) A key to the car.

10. How does Maureen get the keys from July in Section 4?
(a) She tells him Bam is angry.
(b) She tells him she doesn’t trust him.
(c) She tells him she needs to go to town.
(d) She tells him she wants to get the mats from the floor.

11. What does July bring for Bam in Section 1?
(a) Wood.
(b) A car.
(c) Water.
(d) Meat.

12. What does July’s son realize in Section 2, that the others do not?
(a) They will eventually be caught.
(b) The whites are now powerless.
(c) The whites are now alone.
(d) They no longer have money.

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

14. 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.

15. What did July’s mother give up for the Smalls?
(a) Her bed.
(b) Her stove.
(c) Her car.
(d) Her hut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does July make Bam move the car in Section 1?

2. What is a bakkie?

3. What does July report in Section 4 about the towns?

4. Why does Bam know something has happened in Section 4?

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

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