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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who recommended an alternative way to catch the cockroaches to Styles?
2. What does the owner of the car manufacturing plant call himself in his speech to the plant workers?
3. What family member does Styles reminisce about at the end of Part 1?
4. What character is Buntu played by?
5. What memento does Styles have left of his father?
Short Essay Questions
1. Expand on the significance of the idea of transformation in this play.
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. Why does Buntu become calmer when telling Sizwe he's married with a child and sympathizes with his desire to improve himself?
4. Why does Buntu tell Sizwe the story of Jacob, a man who recently died?
5. How does the playwright play upon audience curiosity in Part 2?
6. What does Buntu have to say to Sizwe about the importance of names?
7. Why might the father of the family who came into Styles' studio have died so soon after having come in?
8. How is the studio a "place of dreams"?
9. Why does Buntu switch the pictures in Sizwe's and Robert's passbooks?
10. How does the passbook represent oppression of blacks in Apartheid-era South Africa?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The central question of the play asks what defines identity: one's name or one's actions. Explore whether the play offers an answer to this question, or whether it remains ambiguous.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how pride is central to the play, paying particular attention to the relationship between Buntu and Sizwe Banzi.
Essay Topic 3
In the final moments of the play, Styles tells Sizwe to smile. Explain how this instruction from one character to another functions as a summary of the play's themes of hope, struggle, and change.
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