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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene Two .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When John and Winston first met, he had just returned from his trial, which was where?
(a) St. George’s Strand.
(b) Cradock.
(c) Rooihel.
(d) Robben Island.

2. Winston tells John that he wants to get tobacco for Sipho, who is in solitary again for what reason?
(a) Fighting with the guards.
(b) Complaining about the food.
(c) Fighting with his cellmate.
(d) Refusing to work.

3. What does John do to try to get Winston to laugh?
(a) He very dramatically says Antigone’s lines.
(b) He does a silly dance.
(c) He tickles him.
(d) He puts on Antigone’s costume.

4. What does John recall Winston said as he jumped off the jetty at Robben Island?
(a) Home sweet home!
(b) Get me out of here!
(c) Farewell Africa!
(d) I am innocent!

5. What song did the old man sing as the van drove away the day John and Winston met?
(a) A modern pop song.
(b) A song he wrote himself.
(c) A South African folk song.
(d) a Defiance Campaign song.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling did John have while shoveling sand, which Winston said was exactly what Hodoshe wanted?

2. Whose does Antigone bury in the play John and Winston are to perform?

3. What does John use to try to clean Winston’s wound?

4. What happens to John and Winston after the sound of the first whistle in Scene One?

5. Who is the old man, who started singing, which John remembers as being with them the day they met?

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