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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tengo has waited for the moment to ________________________.
(a) Write his thesis.
(b) Travel the country.
(c) Join the protest groups.
(d) Kiss a girl.

2. When schools reopen, they are closed again soon afterward because __________________________.
(a) A cholera epidemic breaks out.
(b) More protests break out.
(c) There is an influenza epidemic.
(d) It is monsoon season.

3. What does ANC stand for?
(a) Artists Never Compromise.
(b) African Naval Commission.
(c) African Nationalists Convention.
(d) African National Congress.

4. Where does Tengo want to go to school?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Queenstown.
(c) Adelaide.
(d) Port St. Johns.

5. What are the people Tengo finds at the school when he arrives doing?
(a) Waiting for Tengo.
(b) Fighting a fire.
(c) Shooting film for a newscast.
(d) Trying to squash a protest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event has made Tengo acutely aware of the inequality between blacks and whites?

2. Why was Tengo unable to write his matriculation exam?

3. What is Tengo's attitude about his life right now?

4. Tengo is aware of his mother's ___________________ at his departure.

5. Where does Joseph live?

(see the answer key)

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