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

2. What does July’s mother eventually do as she carries wood in Section 5?
(a) Faint.
(b) Give up.
(c) Ask for help.
(d) Crawl on the ground.

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

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

5. What do Maureen and Bam fear their lives will become, as described in Section 1?
(a) Meaningless in their support of white power.
(b) Meaningless in their support of black power.
(c) Meaningless in their support of white rights.
(d) Meaningless in their support of black rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does July note that he was during his time away with the bakke?

2. What does July offer to bring Maureen instead of the medication his wife offered?

3. In Section 2, what did July’s children see that Bam has in the hut?

4. What does Maureen ask that puts July ill at ease in Section 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maureen get the car keys in Section 4, why, and what is July’s reaction?

2. What is July’s plan to tell people, when they question his driving of the bakke, and why does Bam object?

3. What does the author mean by “a contempt and humiliation that came from their blood and his” (pg 62)?

4. What does Maureen mean when she thinks that the balance between love and duty is maintained differently based on the lovers’ place in the economy?

5. In Section 2, what does July try to explain to his family about the Smalls?

6. Describe the photograph of young Maureen and her housekeeper Lydia, and why it is important.

7. Why is July so humiliated that Maureen doesn’t like him having the car keys?

8. Describe the shooting of the warthog, and the resulting meal for the Smalls.

9. Where does July explain he has been with the car in Section 4, and what is Bam’s concern?

10. What types of items does July continue to bring the Smalls family, even in his village?

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