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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 do the blacks not kill the warthogs?
(a) They don’t believe in eating meat.
(b) They don’t know how.
(c) They have no guns.
(d) They don’t know they exist.

2. What did July bring back with him after taking the bakke without permission?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Food and supplies.
(c) Another vehicle.
(d) Money.

3. What does July bring for Bam in Section 1?
(a) Meat.
(b) Wood.
(c) A car.
(d) Water.

4. What is a Primus?
(a) A generator.
(b) A refrigerator.
(c) A stove.
(d) A type of well.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Section 1, where are the children sleeping, once in the hut?

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

5. What does July bring the Smalls at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maureen realize now about how she treated July, and her assumption that he has taken the keys as one friend takes them from another?

2. Explain what Maureen discovers as she notices various gadgets being used around the village.

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

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

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

6. What does the son mean when he says “They can’t do anything. Nothing to us anymore” (pg 21).

7. Explain where the Smalls find themselves in the opening section, and where they came from.

8. 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?

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

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

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