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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other piece of contact information does Zwelinzima give to Styles?
(a) His address.
(b) His phone number.
(c) His mother's phone number.
(d) His mother's addres.

2. What emotion does Styles describe spreading when he finally is able to get a family to smile in a group photo in Part 1?
(a) Love.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Joy.
(d) Sadness.

3. When Styles takes the second photograph for Zwelinzima, what happens him?
(a) He feels the spirit of his mother.
(b) He is illuminated by a white light.
(c) He falls from the chair, lifeless.
(d) He disappears into darkness.

4. What type of speech did the car manufacturer owner want to give to the employees?
(a) An inspirational speech.
(b) An educational speech.
(c) An endearing speech.
(d) A quick speech.

5. How does Zwelinzima begin to act as Style interacts with him?
(a) He becomes more tense.
(b) He begins to act paranoid.
(c) He acts upset.
(d) He begins to relax.

6. How does Zwelinzima explain the series of happenings that apparently gave him only three days to leave his dwelling?
(a) The stories do not make sense.
(b) The stories seem to be lies.
(c) It is basically unexplained.
(d) Each story intertwines deeply into the next.

7. What family member does Styles reminisce about at the end of Part 1?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His father.
(c) His baby sister.
(d) His mother.

8. In the letter being read aloud in Part 2, what does it declare about Sizwe Banzi?
(a) That he is alive.
(b) That he is dead.
(c) That he is in the hospital.
(d) That he has been injured.

9. For whom did Styles say he one day realized that he was working and making money?
(a) Someone else.
(b) Mr. Ford.
(c) Mr. Jones.
(d) A devil.

10. How did Styles interpret the speech given by the car manufacturer owner?
(a) He acted as though he couldn't understand the owner.
(b) In a nervous manner.
(c) Very accurately.
(d) He twisted the words to make fun of the owner and the plant.

11. What did the owner of the house do to help the narrator of the letter while he was supposedly living there?
(a) Escape the police.
(b) Find a job.
(c) Contact his family.
(d) Work at his house.

12. What does Styles shout out for Zwelinzima to imagine he's posing against while getting his picture taken?
(a) "...the city of the future."
(b) "...sky of opportunity."
(c) "...the mountaintops of peace."
(d) "...the rivers of knowledge."

13. In the words of Styles in Part one, "We own nothing but..."
(a) Our spirit.
(b) Our money.
(c) Our freedom.
(d) Ourselves.

14. Which culture in Part 1 does Styles says effects the South African economy?
(a) Romanian.
(b) British.
(c) Persian.
(d) South African.

15. How does Styles feel about the number of pictures Zwelinzima wants taken?
(a) Happy.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Uncomfortable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Styles say the owner of the car manufacturing plant stay at the plant?

2. What is the name of Zwelinzima's wife in Part 2?

3. Why was the owner of the car manufacturer plant unable to give the speech he wanted to give?

4. What memento does Styles have left of his father?

5. What is the name of the character first seen in the opening part of the play?

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