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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one inflexible event on the weekly schedule in Chapter 71?
(a) Mandatory Sunday work sessions.
(b) Chess Tournaments.
(c) Sunday morning religious service.
(d) 8 a.m. group showers.

2. What does Colonel Marx ask Nelson in Chapter 92?
(a) Why do you hate white people?
(b) When will you ever give up?
(c) Do you want to be free?
(d) Do you want a cold drink?

3. What does the trial in Chapter 55 come to be known as?
(a) The Rivonia Trial.
(b) The African suppression trial.
(c) The Nelson Mandela death trial.
(d) The Communism Trial.

4. What is Patrick Lekota's nickname in Chapter 80?
(a) Nightmare.
(b) Ninja.
(c) Beater.
(d) Terror.

5. In 1989, what does de Klerk announce?
(a) His plan to hold elections that include all blacks and coloureds.
(b) His disconnection to the National Party.
(c) The release of Walter and seven other Robben Island political prisoners.
(d) His commitment to upholding apartheid.

6. How does Bram Fischer die in Chapter 77?
(a) Beaten by police officers.
(b) He is drowned.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Car accident.

7. What do the prison authorities start in Chapter 84?
(a) A cooking class.
(b) A cricket team.
(c) A hunger strike.
(d) Their own radio news service.

8. Who smuggles Nelson's memoir out of Robben Island in Chapter 78?
(a) Mac.
(b) Walter.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Nelson.

9. Who is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
(a) Winnie.
(b) Nelson.
(c) Oliver Tambo.
(d) Bishop Desmond Tutu.

10. Who is against Nelson's meetings with Coetsee and other government leaders?
(a) Oliver.
(b) Mac.
(c) Walter.
(d) Kathy.

11. How is Nelson able to get back into South Africa and then get around, undetected, once there?
(a) He grows his hair in dread locks.
(b) He wears a fake beard.
(c) He only travels at night.
(d) He poses as a chauffeur.

12. Who succeeds Colonel Badenhorst?
(a) Kobie Coetsee.
(b) Colonel Willemse.
(c) Botha.
(d) General Steyn.

13. What do Nelson and the others bury in the courtyard in Chapter 78?
(a) Pictures of family.
(b) Newspapers they smuggled in.
(c) Escape plans.
(d) Nelson's memoir.

14. Who visits Nelson in the hospital in Chapter 89?
(a) de Klerk.
(b) WInnie.
(c) Botha.
(d) Kobie Coetsee.

15. How does Bram's wife, Molly die?
(a) Kidnapped and beaten.
(b) Murdered by a mugger.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Car accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Nelson in Chapter 79?

2. Where is Nelson arrested in Chapter 49?

3. Who does Nelson get to see when he travels to the PAFMECSA?

4. What coveted item does the Coloured warden from Bloemforntein bring Nelson and his friends in Chapter 54?

5. What day does the MK decide on to detonate their first round of bombs?

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