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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After explaining to Siswe his thoughts on death, what happens to Buntu's mood?
(a) It slowly becomes darker.
(b) It snaps from dark to lighter.
(c) It changes to exhilarated.
(d) It gradually becomes angry.

2. According to Buntu, what would make him dig his own grave?
(a) Learning his family had been killed.
(b) Living alone.
(c) Continuing to talk in the way he had just been.
(d) Losing meaning of life.

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

4. How does Buntu answer to Sizwe's angry question regarding the dead man?
(a) He shouts that Sizwe is a real character.
(b) He yells that Sizwe is stupid.
(c) He doesn't answer.
(d) He laughs at Sizwe's naivete.

5. Where does Sizwe say the raid took place?
(a) On Sizwe's old home.
(b) On Zola's home.
(c) At Buntu's old village.
(d) At the old dance hall.

6. When Buntu comes out of the bar to join Sizwe in Part 4, what does he suggest?
(a) That it's time to go home.
(b) That he wants to have one more drink before leaving.
(c) That they should go back into the bar.
(d) That they should find prostitutes.

7. What was the first suggestion by Sizwe to Buntu regarding his discovery in the alleyway?
(a) Turn the other direction.
(b) Check for a wallet.
(c) Report the crime.
(d) Hide the discovery.

8. What kind of trouble did Buntu also run in to although he was born in the area?
(a) Getting his birth certificate.
(b) Earning respect from the community.
(c) Making enough money to feed his family.
(d) Getting his work permit.

9. What does Buntu says he sympathizes with Sizwe for?
(a) The need to escape the bureacracy.
(b) Sizwe's anger at the system.
(c) The belief that he is doing his best.
(d) Sizwe's desire to improve himself

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

11. What does Sizwe want to do with what he has discovered in the alleyway?
(a) Check his wallet.
(b) Hide him.
(c) Help him.
(d) Ignore him.

12. What happened to Jacob the other day, according to Buntu in Part 3?
(a) He made a speech from his home.
(b) He was buried.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He was found drunk at a popular bar.

13. According to the preacher, at death, the soul gets to go...?
(a) In peace.
(b) Home.
(c) Aound the block.
(d) Away.

14. What was the second suggestion offered to Buntu regarding the discovery in the alleyway?
(a) Take the passbook,
(b) Go back to the bar.
(c) Move it.
(d) Report it to the police.

15. What does Buntu tell Sizwe to do instead of continuing to live in the country they are in illegally?
(a) To go home.
(b) To only come on a tourist visa.
(c) To leave and go to Japan.
(d) To go home and come back to get a new passport.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buntu say to Sizwe in regards to seeing Sizwe's information in Part 3?

2. At the end of Part 4, what does Buntu collect after Sizwe drunkenly stumbles off?

3. What was Buntu's suggestion about what he had found in the alleyway?

4. Why does Sizwe begin to tear off his clothes at the ending of Part 4?

5. At what affair did the preacher speak, according to Buntu?

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