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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "skelms"?

2. What does Lena show to Outa?

3. Who says, "I want my life. Where is it"?

4. What does "Babalas" mean?

5. What does Lena bribe Boesman with to let Outa stay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lena talk so much?

2. How does Boesman react to Lena's plan to sleep in the shanty?

3. What does Boesman figure out about who they are in relation to the white man?

4. What is Boesman doing at the beginning of Act 2? Why?

5. What does Lena associate Boesman's predicament after Outa's death with?

6. Why does Lena long for the days when Boesman worked for the Chinaman?

7. Why does Boesman believe that he admitted his fault earlier in the day?

8. Why does Lena want to know where they've traveled?

9. What does Lena ask to drink from Boesman? What word is this in Afrikaan? In English?

10. What does Boesman say that the police do when Lena tries to stop him from beating her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the word "racism." What does this word mean to you? What does it mean in the play?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the word "identity." What characters search for their identity in Boesman and Lena? How?

Essay Topic 3

How did Athol Fugard hope to use theater as a means to change the society in which he lived? Was he successful?

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