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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is Buntu played by?
(a) The same character as Styles.
(b) A woman.
(c) A black child.
(d) A white child.

2. When Buntu sees the address of the dead man, what does he do?
(a) He encourages Sizwe to sell the book.
(b) He explains how rich that part of town is.
(c) He refuses to go to that part of town.
(d) He warns Sizwe to leave this book alone.

3. What does the significance of the dead man's name suggest?
(a) That Sizwe will find the man's friends.
(b) That Zola will re-enter the plot.
(c) That Sizwe has stolen the dead man's identity.
(d) That Buntu will find the man's friends.

4. When Sizwe finally hands his passbook to Buntu, what does he say at that moment?
(a) That this book makes him less of a man.
(b) That Sizwe is not Sizwe, but Jacob.
(c) What's in the book doesn't make him a man, but that it goes with you everywhere anyway.
(d) That this book is his life, as ridiculous as that may seem.

5. Why does Sizwe begin to tear off his clothes at the ending of Part 4?
(a) To cover the dead man.
(b) To start a fight with Buntu.
(c) To cool off from the heat of his anger and drunkeness.
(d) To show that he is "just a man".

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Sizwe when he tries to get home from the bar with Buntu?

2. What does Styles convince Zwelinzima to do in Part 2?

3. What type of picture does Styles aim to provide for Zwelinzima?

4. After introducing himself, what does Sizwe tell everyone he meets in Part 4 to do?

5. What does Sizwe first tell Buntu at the beginning of Part 3?

(see the answer key)

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