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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has made Boesman talkative in Act 2?
(a) Warmth.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Wine.

2. What does Lena refer to as "Happy Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Birthday"?
(a) All the regrets.
(b) All the Happies.
(c) All yesterdays.
(d) All tomorrows.

3. What did Lena do when the bulldozers came?
(a) Sang.
(b) Danced.
(c) Cried.
(d) Laughed.

4. Who says, "When you make a hole in your face the noise that comes out is as good as nothing, because nobody hears it"?
(a) Athol.
(b) Lena.
(c) Boesman.
(d) Outa.

5. What does Lena plan on digging for tomorrow?
(a) Prawns.
(b) Worms.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Moles.

6. What does Boesman do to the shelter when Lena says she'll sleep there tonight?
(a) Empties it.
(b) Knocks it down.
(c) Leaves it.
(d) Lights it on fire.

7. What does Boesman say that the white man gave them in demolishing their village?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Anger.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Tears.

8. Who says, "You must make the words crawl to him, with your tongue between their back legs"?
(a) Lena.
(b) Boesman.
(c) Zachariah.
(d) Outa.

9. Who says, "Big yellow donner with its jawbone to the ground. One bite and there's a hole in the earth!"?
(a) Boesman.
(b) Outa.
(c) Athol.
(d) Lena.

10. What does Lena call Boesman for what he does to the shelter?
(a) A bulldozer.
(b) A monster.
(c) A Kaffir.
(d) A pig.

11. What does Lena ask Boesman to do instead of hitting her?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Touch her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Slap her.

12. What does the phrase "En dit?" mean?
(a) And that?
(b) Is it late?
(c) Where's the rain?
(d) Who are you?

13. What does Lena tell Outa to think about after Boesman goes into the shelter?
(a) Warm times.
(b) Coldness.
(c) Wine.
(d) The desert.

14. What does Lena say that Boesman left on the dead man?
(a) Blood.
(b) Money.
(c) Fingerprints.
(d) Clothing.

15. What is the setting for the stage in Boesman and Lena?
(a) Red curtains and red floor.
(b) Bare stage.
(c) The backdrop of a village.
(d) The backdrop of the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the phrase "pap ou borste, ribbetjies" mean?

2. Why does Lena say that Boesman admitted his wrong?

3. What does Lena say "hasn't got a hole in it yet"?

4. How does Lena know the old man died?

5. What does Grappie mean in English?

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