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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 the chief ask about, in terms of Johannesburg?
(a) He asks to hear their eye witness accounts.
(b) He asks about the weather.
(c) He asks about businesses.
(d) He asks about the schools.

2. Who drives the car with the family in Section 7?
(a) July.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Maureen.
(d) Bam.

3. What do Daniel and July do when they see the chief in Section 8?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Shake his hand.
(c) Sing.
(d) Drop to their knees.

4. What is July trying to fix on the car in Section 7?
(a) The engine.
(b) The exhaust.
(c) The gas tank.
(d) The starter.

5. Why do the Smalls lead their children away from the party in Section 9?
(a) It is too dangerous.
(b) Many are fighting.
(c) It is too loud.
(d) Many are drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bam wonder about, in terms of what July will do if the Smalls are evicted?

2. Where is all of July’s money?

3. What does July refuse to do to get Maureen to leave in Section 10?

4. Why does Maureen find her husband attractive during dinner an evening in Section 7?

5. What does Bam think they should have brought to the chief?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Maureen runs for the helicopter at the end of the novel, leaving her family behind?

2. Explain how July sees his chief.

3. What is missing when the Smalls arrive back at the hut in Section 9, and what does this likely mean for the family?

4. What does Bam try to explain about why the chief shouldn’t kill his own people?

5. Explain why the chief wants to learn to use a gun.

6. Explain Maureen’s feelings about her life, prior to the riots, as reflected upon in Section 9.

7. What does the author mean when she says Victor is angry “with a white man’s anger, too big for him”?

8. Explain why Maureen drowns the kittens and what this implies about her?

9. What is July’s mother’s primary objection to the white people?

10. Describe Maureen’s point about the smell of her family.

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