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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. What did Buntu allow Zwelinzima to do?

2. How many pictures does Zwelinzima want taken in Part 2?

3. According to Styles, convincing his customers to take pictures in a way that is different than they prefer is...

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

5. What does Styles tell the man who is picking up his family photos to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Sizwe and Buntu find the dead body after they leave the bar?

2. Explain the meaning behind Styles yelling out for Robert to imagine that he is against the backdrop of the "city of the future".

3. In what way does Style's story about the Ford plant speech show that he was an enterprising personality even before he had his own business?

4. Why does Buntu tell Sizwe the story of Jacob, a man who recently died?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the way Buntu's mood abruptly changes at the end of Part 3, and what he decides to do as a result.

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The real Robert Zwelinzima of the play seems to have died a violent death. Discuss whether or not this could be a symbol, and if so, what it could be a symbol of.

Essay Topic 2

Is the framing device of the letter to Noweto a foundation for the rest of the action, a means to getting out information that cannot easily be staged, or both? Explain your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how pride is central to the play, paying particular attention to the relationship between Buntu and Sizwe Banzi.

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