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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 visitors can Nelson have a year?
(a) Unlimited.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 15.

2. What does Nelson start on his 57th birthday?
(a) Writing a memoir.
(b) Building a swimming pool in the courtyard.
(c) Planning an escape.
(d) A garden.

3. Who does Nelson learn is in jail with him in Chapter 49?
(a) Winnie.
(b) No one. He is kept in solitary confinement the entire time.
(c) Chief Luthilu.
(d) Walter Sisulu.

4. Who is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Chapter 45?
(a) Chief Luthuli.
(b) Walter Sisulu.
(c) Dr. Malan.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

5. What type of tournaments do they hold on Christmas day, in Chapter 71?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Chess and checkers.
(d) Cricket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the prisoner's "ballies"?

2. Where is Nelson taken in Chapter 89?

3. Who does Father Hughes incorporate into his sermons in Chapter 71?

4. What does Nelson begin to read in Chapter 81?

5. What does Nelson protest about in Chapter 59?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jimmy Kruger offer Nelson in Chapter 79, and how does Nelson respond?

2. How does the ANC change over the course of Chapter 41?

3. How does Winnie appear, both physically and emotionally, when she visits Nelson in Chapter 63?

4. How does the failure of the stay-at-home in Chapter 41 move the ANC away from nonviolence?

5. How is Nelson's prison stay at Victor Verster different from his previous imprisonments?

6. What makes Nelson yell at Micheal Harmel in Chapter 44?

7. How does Nelson describe "living underground" in Chapter 40?

8. What does Nelson learn when Bram and Joel come to visit the prisoners?

9. Who is Robert Sobukwe?

10. What does Nelson wear to his trial in Chapter 51 and why?

(see the answer keys)

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