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

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

3. In what country is this story set?
(a) Bolivia.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) China.

4. In whose house does Zwelinzima say that he stayed while narrating his letter?
(a) Maloo.
(b) Buntu.
(c) Zola.
(d) Guntu.

5. Who came to collect the pictures for the aforementioned family?
(a) The eldest son.
(b) The sister.
(c) The eldest sister.
(d) The grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Styles gives the pictures back to the family member, what does the family member begin to do?

3. How did the owner of Styles' car manufacturing company first arrive at the organization for his speech?

4. What type of speech did the car manufacturer owner want to give to the employees?

5. What animal did Styles get to catch cockroaches?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 4, how is it revealed that Sizwe has already taken on the dead man's identity?

2. How much respect does Buntu have for Sizwe?

3. What is the purpose of Robert being illuminated in a single light right before he begins narrating his letter to his wife?

4. How is Buntu's display in order to convince Sizwe to change identities particularly powerful?

5. Are Sizwe's and Buntu's reactions to finding the dead body the same? Explain your answer.

6. Why does Sizwe tear off his clothes in Part 4?

7. What all does Sizwe say to Noweto, his wife, in his letter at the end of Part 5?

8. How is it suggested that if an oppressed black man can realize his dreams in a photographic studio, then black people everywhere can realize their dreams no matter what they are?

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

10. How does Styles transform Robert's attitude in Part 2?

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