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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who recommended an alternative way to catch the cockroaches to Styles?
(a) A customer.
(b) A friend.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

4. During which war did Styles' father fight?
(a) The Indo-Japanese War.
(b) The 7 Year War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

5. When Styles gives the pictures back to the family member, what does the family member begin to do?
(a) Reminisce about life in the family.
(b) Cry about the passed grandfather in the picture.
(c) Leave without paying.
(d) Complain about the quality of the picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the letter being read aloud in Part 2, what does it declare about Sizwe Banzi?

2. What does the first man who walks into Styles' shop want?

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

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

5. When Styles takes the second photograph for Zwelinzima, what happens him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could the mention of the name Robert Zwelinzima be a powerful instance of foreshadowing?

2. Without having seen the play, what would be a safe implication to make about the character of Robert, given that one of the first things he does is give his name and immediately afterward, his address?

3. How much respect does Buntu have for Sizwe?

4. Why does Buntu switch the pictures in Sizwe's and Robert's passbooks?

5. Hypothesize the possible meanings this Part of the play and the passbook itself could have in relation to the struggle of black people against white people.

6. How does this section of the play give us more information about the circumstances under which black people lived under Apartheid?

7. Of what significance is Robert turning out to introduce himself to Buntu as Sizwe Banzi?

8. Why, after Sizwe asks Buntu how long it will "last," does Buntu suddenly says he's tired, bid goodnight to Robert and leave?

9. Why does Buntu's mood change at the end of Part 3?

10. How does the passbook represent oppression of blacks in Apartheid-era South Africa?

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