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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Second Girl" - "Loopholes".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crime did the author's parents commit when they had him?
(a) They each had intercourse with a person of another race.
(b) They kidnapped him from his real parents.
(c) They illegally crossed the border to have him in Swaziland.
(d) They hired an off-the-books midwife to deliver him.

2. What nationality is listed on the author's birth certificate?
(a) South African.
(b) Xhosa.
(c) Swiss.
(d) Swazi.

3. On what does the author blame most of the things that have gone wrong in his life?
(a) The death of his mother.
(b) Second-hand cars.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) Fear.

4. Which of the following is NOT a language that Patricia taught to the author?
(a) English.
(b) Tsonga.
(c) Xhosa.
(d) Afrikaans.

5. Where did Abel go after he was forced to move out of the home of the white family he lived with?
(a) He moved in with Patricia and the author.
(b) He bought an identical house across the street.
(c) He was forced to live on the streets.
(d) He left to make it big in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Robert feel when Patricia asked him to impregnate her?

2. What was the only part of a person's home that could not be improved in Soweto?

3. Why was the author afraid to pray for God to kill the thing that left feces in his grandmother's house?

4. Which church does the author describe as "passionate" and "cathartic"?

5. What predominately Zulu political group violently opposed the African National Congress after the end of apartheid?

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