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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the ANC Women's Leauge protest in Chapter 28?
(a) Voting rights.
(b) The requirement to carry passes.
(c) Domestic Abuse.
(d) Equal pay.

2. What do the people of Nelson's village call corn?
(a) Mealies.
(b) Co-Co.
(c) Yummies.
(d) Mimmsie.

3. How old is Nelson in 1955?
(a) 45.
(b) 38.
(c) 30.
(d) 22.

4. What do the boys bury after their circumscision in Chapter 4?
(a) Their own blood.
(b) Their foreskin.
(c) Their hair.
(d) Their childhood toys.

5. What nickname is the Johannesburg Prison given?
(a) Dead End.
(b) The Cell.
(c) Black Den.
(d) The Fort.

6. What does Nelson's speech at the Transvaal conference become known as?
(a) The No Easy Walk to Freedom speech.
(b) Over my dead body speech.
(c) Nationalism for the black man speech.
(d) Freedom in our lifetime speech.

7. Who is Chief Albert Luthuli?
(a) Nelson's father.
(b) The leader of the Nationalist Party.
(c) The man who is named president of the ANC at the ANC annual conference in 1952.
(d) A dear friend of the regent.

8. What is the name of the Gold Mine that Nelson goes to in Chapter 9?
(a) Royal Mines.
(b) Sample Mines.
(c) Gold and Diamond Mines.
(d) Crown Mines.

9. Who represents many of the arrested women in Chapter 28?
(a) The ANC party.
(b) No one, it is illegal to represent women in court.
(c) Mandela and Tambo.
(d) The Nationalist Party.

10. Where does Nelson first see Winnie?
(a) In Jail.
(b) In his office.
(c) At a bus stop.
(d) At the grocery store.

11. Where does Nelson move in 1946?
(a) Orlando West.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Johannesburg.
(d) Back home to the country.

12. How is the Pan Africanist Congress different from the ANC?
(a) They reject multi racialism and are more militant.
(b) They believe all African should leave South Africa.
(c) They believe that Africans should work with the white government in a peaceful way.
(d) They want to actively get women more involved in the fight.

13. Who is Zenani?
(a) Nelson and Winnie's first child together.
(b) The name of the judge hearing the case.
(c) The town that Nelson and Winnie move to.
(d) Winnie's sister.

14. What major event is facing South African in 1958?
(a) The general election.
(b) An epic drought that wipes out 1/2 of the crops in the country.
(c) South African's involvment in American Civil Rights.
(d) A recent earthquake.

15. How many ANC members are arrested in Chapter 23?
(a) 55.
(b) 200.
(c) 11.
(d) 156.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does the watchman find in Nelson's suitcase in Chapter 9?

2. Who is Professor Andrew Murray?

3. What happens to Nelson when he is passing through Kroonstad in Chapter 14?

4. What is Marshall Squre?

5. Where is Nelson in Chapter 18 when he receives his first government ban?

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