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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is a Primus?
(a) A generator.
(b) A refrigerator.
(c) A type of well.
(d) A stove.
2. What does Bam do for leisure in Section 3?
(a) He spends time with his family.
(b) He sings with the villagers.
(c) He drinks beer with the villagers.
(d) He plays sports with the villagers.
3. What does Maureen notice about the value of money to the villagers?
(a) It has significant meaning.
(b) It means more than life.
(c) It has little meaning.
(d) They don’t know what money is.
4. In Section 1, where are the children sleeping, once in the hut?
(a) Car seats.
(b) Hammocks.
(c) The floor.
(d) Beds.
5. What do both Maureen and Bam refuse from July at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Milk.
(b) Tea.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Coffee.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Maureen and Bam fear their lives will become, as described in Section 1?
2. What does Maureen realize the people in town will see about July?
3. What does July bring the Smalls at the beginning of the novel?
4. Who takes the bakke in Section 3?
5. How much time has passed since Maureen and Bam left Johannesburg?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does July learn to do in Section 4, and who teaches him?
2. Describe the shooting of the warthog, and the resulting meal for the Smalls.
3. Describe the situation with the vehicle in Section 3.
4. Where does July explain he has been with the car in Section 4, and what is Bam’s concern?
5. What does the son mean when he says “They can’t do anything. Nothing to us anymore” (pg 21).
6. Describe the bakke, and its use in the Smalls family, both previously and currently.
7. What types of items does July continue to bring the Smalls family, even in his village?
8. Explain Martha and July's mother's reaction to meeting Maureen in Section 2.
9. Explain Maureen’s reaction to meeting Martha and July’s mother in Section 2.
10. Why does July object to Maureen’s use of his wife’s cough syrup?
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