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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. Why does Maureen avoid reading the only book she has?
(a) She hates reading.
(b) She can’t read it because it is in Italian.
(c) She knows that when she reads it, there are no others.
(d) She doesn’t want to know the ending.

2. What is a bakkie?
(a) A car.
(b) A plant.
(c) An article of clothing.
(d) A bicycle.

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

4. What does July bring into the hut in Section 4?
(a) A stove.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Meat.
(d) Wood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 5, what does Maureen wonder about the town woman?

2. What does Maureen do when she menstruates?

3. What did Maureen’s father do for a living?

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

5. What does July’s son realize in Section 2, that the others do not?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Maureen and Bam argue about in Section 3?

4. Describe the bakke, and its use in the Smalls family, both previously and currently.

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

6. What does July say that makes Maureen equally angry in Section 5?

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

8. What was the relationship between July’s “town woman” and July? What was the relationship between July's town woman and Maureen?

9. 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?

10. What does July learn to do in Section 4, and who teaches him?

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