View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is Buntu played by?
(a) A white child.
(b) The same character as Styles.
(c) A black child.
(d) A woman.

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

3. Which car manufacturing plant did Styles originally work for?
(a) Ford.
(b) Chevrolet.
(c) Honda.
(d) Fiat.

4. How did the owner of Styles' car manufacturing company first arrive at the organization for his speech?
(a) By private jet.
(b) In a Nissan car.
(c) By helicopter.
(d) By limousine.

5. According to Styles, what happened to his father after he returned home from the war?
(a) He was captured three years later.
(b) He was left with nothing.
(c) He was given honors.
(d) He was accused of spying for the Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Styles interpret the speech given by the car manufacturer owner?

2. How does Zwelinzima explain the series of happenings that apparently gave him only three days to leave his dwelling?

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

4. What did the owner of the house do to help the narrator of the letter while he was supposedly living there?

5. In whose house does Zwelinzima say that he stayed while narrating his letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sizwe and Buntu's disagreement about what to do with the dead body foreshadow their later conflict about Sizwe changing identity?

2. What is the significance of the kitten's name?

3. Why might Styles' charming demeanor come as a surprise to the audience, given the times in which this play takes place, as well as the period in which it was performed?

4. What would one say might be the climax of the play?

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

6. 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?

7. Why doesn't Sizwe want to work in the mines?

8. What is the playwright implying about the fact that "Robert" was still unsuccessful working with Zola?

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,409 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample