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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of kleinbaas?
(a) Master baker.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Young master.
(d) Long journey.

2. Who is Tengo?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A chef.
(c) The son of the farm's boss-boy.
(d) A chauffeur.

3. Who is Timothy?
(a) Tengo's brother.
(b) Frikkie's uncle.
(c) Frikkie's father.
(d) Tengo's father.

4. What is Tengo's ethnicity?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) Asian.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

5. What is Tengo doing when Frikkie finds him in Chapter 2?
(a) Working with a hunk of clay.
(b) Building a fire.
(c) Plucking chickens.
(d) Feeding the cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in #22 often provide to his employees?

2. Whom does Frikkie's cousin order to clean up the mess on the floor at the party?

3. What does Frikkie give the girls to assure that they don't tell anyone about Tengo's outburst?

4. What animal has Tengo crafted out of clay?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what story does Tengo see that the white man has twisted history to suit his own needs?

2. Why is it frustrating for Tengo to read the textbooks given to him by his aunt's employer?

3. How are the differences between blacks and whites exhibited in the characters of Frikkie and Tengo?

4. How do the oubaas twist the story of the Great Trek told to Frikkie and Tengo?

5. Why is Frikkie given so much respect on his uncle's farm?

6. What is inside the large box that arrives for Tengo?

7. What are some of the things that Tengo learns about city life for black people from Joseph?

8. How does Tengo feel as he learns more and more about how his ancestors were treated?

9. Who is Joseph?

10. Who is Tengo?

(see the answer keys)

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