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

2. Who is the Millers' daughter?
(a) Claire.
(b) Celeste.
(c) Chloe.
(d) Christine.

3. Which friend of Tengo's asks him to join a group?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Martin.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Elijah.

4. 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.

5. According to Tengo, the black schools are designed to ____________________________.
(a) Teach equality among races.
(b) Teach blacks just enough to do menial jobs.
(c) Instill confidence in black children.
(d) Create straight-A students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the head of the organization Tengo is asked to join?

2. How many years does Tengo study before taking his first break?

3. Who is afraid that the threat will ruin the farm?

4. Joseph tells Tengo that he can make arrangements for him to finish his education ________________ through the ANC.

5. What does Frikkie have difficulty in accepting when he realizes that Tengo is gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tengo suspect about Joseph who is rarely home these days?

2. What is the source of Tengo's angry moods?

3. How much time has passed since the last chapter and what does Tengo no longer note about living in Johannesburg?

4. What does Tengo encounter one day when he arrives at school?

5. How does Tengo feel, knowing that he has to make a choice between going to school and protesting for his people?

6. Why does Tengo spend his school breaks studying with the help of a local preacher?

7. Who is Elijah and what groups does he invite Tengo to join?

8. How is Dr. Miller starkly different from the oubaas and his wife?

9. What does Tengo think about what the protesters believe the whites will never allow blacks to have?

10. With whom does Tengo continue his studies after the schools reopen?

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