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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tengo must choose between his personal desire for an education and _____________________________.
(a) The need to support his family.
(b) The desire to travel.
(c) His country's need for change.
(d) His father's demands.

2. Tengo's mother tells _______________ that Tengo is determined to go to school.
(a) Frikkie.
(b) The oubaas' wife.
(c) Mrs. Miller.
(d) Oom Koos.

3. Tengo is aware of his mother's ___________________ at his departure.
(a) Unhappiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anxiety.

4. Why does Frikkie want life to stay the same?
(a) He likes feeling superior.
(b) He has never known anything else.
(c) He has learned it from his friends.
(d) He makes good money now.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a soldier force Tengo to do at the school gates?

2. Why does Tengo study during his breaks?

3. Who is the oubaas' current boss-boy?

4. At first, Frikkie's _________________ sister can read faster than Tengo can.

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

(see the answer key)

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