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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 organization does Evelyn get involved with in Chapter 24?
(a) Communist Party.
(b) The Watch Tower.
(c) The Women's League.
(d) The ANC.

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

3. Who is Piliso?
(a) The friend who helps Nelson move.
(b) The chief or headman in charge of the mines.
(c) The lawyer who helps Justice.
(d) The policeman who arrests Nelson.

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

5. Where is the trial moved in Chapter 29?
(a) Pretoria.
(b) Sophiatown.
(c) Cape Town.
(d) Alexandra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What township is at the center of the Western Areas Removal protests in Chapter 16?

2. What is Marshall Squre?

3. How old is Nelson in 1955?

4. What does the word Apartheid mean?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Nelson's father in Chapter 3?

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

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

4. What happens when Nelson enters the courthouse in Villiers in Chapter 18?

5. What is a positive side to so many of the ANC leaders being arrested together in Chapter 23?

6. How does Nelson end up attending school in Chapter 2?

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

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

9. How does Nelson describe Chief Albert Luthuli in Chapter 15?

10. According to Anton Lembede, what is the first step in liberation for Africans?

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