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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 little meaning.
(b) It has significant meaning.
(c) They don’t know what money is.
(d) It means more than life.

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

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

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

5. What does July report in Section 4 about the towns?
(a) They are still in flux with riots.
(b) They are evacuated.
(c) They are overpopulated.
(d) They are calming.

6. When were July’s children conceived?
(a) When his wife was in town.
(b) During holidays.
(c) On his leave.
(d) It is unknown.

7. What does Maureen note in Section 3 that she doesn’t want to hear a spiel on?
(a) Whether or not their politics are justified.
(b) Whether or not their lives are in danger.
(c) Whether or not their old lives were a lie.
(d) Whether or not she is a good mother.

8. What makes the children happy, as nothing can?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Driving.
(c) Buying things.
(d) Volleyball.

9. What does Maureen see when she steps out for a rain shower in Section 3?
(a) The vehicle is returned.
(b) There are armies coming.
(c) The village is quiet.
(d) The night is lit up with bombs.

10. Who takes the bakke in Section 3?
(a) Royce and July.
(b) July and another man.
(c) Bam and July.
(d) Maureen and Bam.

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

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

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

14. What have the boys learned to do instead of us toilet paper?
(a) Wipe their bottoms with stones.
(b) Wipe their bottoms with leaves.
(c) Wipe their bottoms with rags.
(d) Rinse in the river water.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Section 3, what has Maureen noticed about items in the village?

3. What does July say he plans to tell people when they ask about the bakke?

4. Why can’t the Smalls fly overseas?

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

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