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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does July make Bam move the car in Section 1?
(a) He wants to sell it.
(b) He wants to steal it.
(c) He’s afraid it will be seen.
(d) He wants to use it for parts.

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

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

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

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

6. 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 Bam is angry.
(c) She tells him she doesn’t trust him.
(d) She tells him she needs to go to town.

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

8. What does July say he plans to tell people when they ask about the bakke?
(a) That he found it abandoned.
(b) That he borrowed it.
(c) That he stole it.
(d) That he got it from Bam in town.

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

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

11. What does Bam do to try to reconcile after his argument with Maureen in Section 3?
(a) He reads to her.
(b) He leaves her alone.
(c) He sings to her.
(d) He talks to her.

12. What 'medication' does Maureen get from Martha in Section 4?
(a) Something to make her sleep.
(b) Something for the children’s cough.
(c) Something for malaria.
(d) Something for her cold.

13. Where does the photograph of Maureen and Lydia end up later in Life?
(a) In a Life book.
(b) In an ad against apartheid.
(c) In a magazine.
(d) In a story about white supremacists.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bam help July build in Section 3?

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

3. Who used to visit Maureen in the yard with July?

4. In Seciton 4, what does July learn to do for himself?

5. What is the real reason Bam and Maureen do not leave South Africa?

(see the answer keys)

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