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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 Styles say he had to go through to attain ownership of a building and a business?
2. Why was the owner of the car manufacturer plant unable to give the speech he wanted to give?
3. What type of speech did the car manufacturer owner want to give to the employees?
4. When Styles gives the pictures back to the family member, what does the family member begin to do?
5. When Styles takes the second photograph for Zwelinzima, what happens him?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Buntu help Sizwe "practice" being Robert Zwelinzima?
3. What is the passbook a symbol of?
4. How is the studio a "place of dreams"?
5. What is the playwright implying about the fact that "Robert" was still unsuccessful working with Zola?
6. Describe the way Buntu's mood abruptly changes at the end of Part 3, and what he decides to do as a result.
7. In Part 4, how is it revealed that Sizwe has already taken on the dead man's identity?
8. Are Sizwe's and Buntu's reactions to finding the dead body the same? Explain your answer.
9. How much respect does Buntu have for Sizwe?
10. What is the significance of the kitten's name?
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
How does the playwright reveal information about the central character of Sizwe Banzi, and how does this draw the audience into his story?
Essay Topic 3
At two moments in the play, in Part 3 and Part 5, Buntu abruptly changes from a positive mindset to a negative one. What do these moments say about him, and what is the playwright trying to say about the attitude of South African blacks through this facet of Buntu's character?
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