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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Sizwe respond to Buntu when Buntu asks him for his passbook a second time at the end of Part 4?
(a) He refuses to give it over.
(b) He laughs and hands it over.
(c) He begins to run away from Buntu.
(d) He acts as though he has lost it.

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

5. At the end of Part 4, what does Buntu collect after Sizwe drunkenly stumbles off?
(a) The dead body of the man.
(b) Sizwe's clothes.
(c) Sizwe's passbook.
(d) The money of the dead man.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Buntu remind Sizwe about the possibility of getting a new passbook?
(a) The bureaucracy involved in it.
(b) The dangers of reporting it.
(c) The low chances of being able to actually renew it.
(d) The ease of getting it with the right amount of money.

11. 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.

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

13. Where is Sizwe when he introduces himself to other people on the night he went to the bar with Buntu?
(a) Outise of Buntu's car.
(b) Out on the street in front of the bar.
(c) In the back alley of the bar.
(d) Outside of Buntu's house.

14. What is the reason that Sizwe gives Buntu for not wanting to die yet?
(a) He has a wife and children.
(b) He is young.
(c) He is afraid of the day.
(d) He needs to reconcile with his father.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the second suggestion offered to Buntu regarding the discovery in the alleyway?

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

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

5. What does Buntu says he sympathizes with Sizwe for?

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