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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many visitors can Nelson have a year?

2. Who visits Nelson in the hospital in Chapter 89?

3. How is Nelson able to get back into South Africa and then get around, undetected, once there?

4. Where is Nelson arrested in Chapter 49?

5. How does Bram's wife, Molly die?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nelson describe Pollsmoor in Chapter 87?

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

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

4. What is Nelson's experience at Tygerberg Hospital in Chapter 94?

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

6. Why is Nelson placed in the prison hospital in Chapter 50?

7. Who is Robert Sobukwe?

8. Why is it so hard for people to visit the prisoners on Bobben Island?

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

10. How does Nelson describe Christmas on Robben Island in Chapter 71?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role that religion plays in Nelson's life?

Essay Topic 2

How does the appointment of F.W. de Klerk to president impact South Africa and Nelson's life, in particular?

Essay Topic 3

How do the tactics and ideals of the ANC change the course of the book? What leads to these changes?

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