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

2. Who is Oliver Tambo?
(a) The president of the ANC.
(b) Nelson's communist friend who teaches him about Marxism.
(c) Nelson's brother-in-law who comes to live with him.
(d) Nelson's law partner.

3. 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) The Nationalist Party.
(d) Mandela and Tambo.

4. Who is Professor Andrew Murray?
(a) An expert witness for the prosecution on the subject of Communist.
(b) The defense attorney.
(c) The prosecution lawyer.
(d) The judge hearing the case.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nelson first see Winnie?

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

3. How old is Nelson when he becomes a herd boy?

4. What religion is Lazar Sidelsky?

5. What does Nelson do to keep the crowd calm when Yusuf Cachalia is arrested in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nelson describe Sophiatown in Chapter 17?

2. What is banning?

3. How does Nelson describe the Xhosa people in Chapter 1?

4. Why does Nelson become a ward of the Regent?

5. What is Nelson awoken to at the start of Chapter 23?

6. What are the two sides of the election of 1948?

7. How does China become connected to Nelson and Walter in Chapter 17?

8. How does Nelson describe the gold mines in Chapter 9?

9. How does Nelson recieve the name "Nelson" in Chapter 2?

10. Why do Nelson, his mother and brothers and sisters move to the village of Qunu in Chapter 1?

(see the answer keys)

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