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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 happens to Nelson on December 5 1956?
(a) He meets Winnie.
(b) He divorces Evelyn.
(c) He is named president of the ANC.
(d) He is arrested.

2. What is the name of the extension of the ANC that is formed in Chapter 11?
(a) Young African Men (YAM).
(b) The Youth League.
(c) The League of Young Men.
(d) African Nationals.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname is Alexandra given?

2. Who is Piliso?

3. What is the colloquial meaning of Nelson's African name?

4. What do the boys bury after their circumscision in Chapter 4?

5. Who represents many of the arrested women in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is banning?

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

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

4. What do African women protest in Chapter 28?

5. Why does Nelson and Evelyn's marriage break down in Chapter 24?

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

7. Why do Nelson and his friend Bikitsha end up in jail in Chapter 9?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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