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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Buntu proceed to to after explaining about the dead man's book to Sizwe?
(a) Takes the dead man's money.
(b) Walk away.
(c) Takes the dead man's book.
(d) Take the dead man's clothes.

2. In Part 4, how does Sizwe begin telling the audience about going to a bar with Buntu?
(a) By narrating his letter to Noweto.
(b) By shouting angrily about his memories of the bar.
(c) By narrating the dream he had that night.
(d) Through narrating his experience to Buntu the next day.

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

4. What does SIzwe drunkenly wish to Buntu when Buntu decides to leave the dead man's body behind? .
(a) That Buntu could go home to his family.
(b) That Buntu could have a heart.
(c) That Buntu was dead.
(d) That Buntu would forgive himself.

5. 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

6. When does Buntu say is the only time a soul can be completely free?
(a) After being forgiving.
(b) In death.
(c) After forgiving itself.
(d) After fulfilling karma.

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

8. .What does Buntu tell Sizwe to do after they have a fight outside of the bar?
(a) To forget it all.
(b) To remember this moment.
(c) To get lost.
(d) To come home.

9. When Sizwe finally hands his passbook to Buntu, what does he say at that moment?
(a) That this book is his life, as ridiculous as that may seem.
(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 makes him less of a man.

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

11. What does Buntu suggest Sizwe do for work back in his home country?
(a) To work in the mines.
(b) To work as a taxi driver.
(c) To work as a bellboy.
(d) To work as a rickshaw driver.

12. What is Sizwe's angry question to Buntu when Buntu decides to leave the dead man alone?
(a) Would Buntu enjoy dying himself?
(b) Is this what Buntu would do if HE was dead?
(c) Is Buntu strong enough to carry his own karma?
(d) Does Buntu care about family?

13. Who starts leading the way to go home when Sizwe and Buntu leave the bar on their first night out?
(a) A bartender who just got off his shift.
(b) A passerby.
(c) Sizwe.
(d) Buntu.

14. In what profession has Sizwe heard of too many men dying?
(a) Taxi driving.
(b) Rickshaw driving.
(c) Mining.
(d) Messengers.

15. What does Sizwe say in response to Buntu's concern over Sizwe's passbook?
(a) That it is important not to tell anyone about it.
(b) That he should forget about it.
(c) That it is not important.
(d) That he wonders about the possibility of being able to get another one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Buntu remind Sizwe about the possibility of getting a new passbook?

2. What does the significance of the dead man's name suggest?

3. What does Buntu reluctantly do after Sizwe suggests that they let whoever's there know what's happened?

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

5. How does Buntu answer to Sizwe's angry question regarding the dead man?

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