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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 street goes to the "black people's location"?

2. What does Jakob suggest that he and Pieter search for on a trip to the family farm?

3. How old is Pieter when he is forbidden to continue to collect stamps?

4. Who does Pieter cancel visiting with after having drinks at the hotel?

5. Besides Pieter, who is angry about being born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Stephanie come to Pieter's house?

2. Why does Pieter refuse dinner at his father's the first night after he has been with Stephanie?

3. When Japie brought Pieter back home, what did Pieter do?

4. How does the news of Pieter's charges affect Frans, Sophie and Pieter's mom?

5. Why does Pieter ask Johannes about Esther?

6. Why does Pieter feel unclean after returning home to Nella from taking Stephanie the money for a lawyer?

7. Why does Pieter get so upset about Nella's response to his letter?

8. What happened with small pox in Venterspan?

9. Pieter was allowed to go home but what did he find when he got there?

10. Why does Frans go to see Sophie at the captain's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several people make decisions in the first few chapters of the story (Pieter, Nella, Dick, Stephanie, Esther). What do these decisions reveal about each of these characters? What do these decisions reveal about the society in which they live? How do any of these decisions serve as an early indicator of what is to come in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Several times Pieter decides to confide in various people but does not. How does this affect the story? What is his relationship with each of them before he is found out and after he is found out?

Essay Topic 3

Each character's response to Pieter's involvement with Stephanie reveals something about them. Discuss this unveiling for Kappie, Sophie, Koos, Jakob, Pieter's mother, Vorster, and Pieter's younger sister and the captain.

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