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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. When does the author believe that a person is most themselves, according to the story "Pray, Trevor"?
(a) When suffering.
(b) When looking into the eyes of a loved one.
(c) When working.
(d) When defecating.

2. Why was the author difficult for his caretakers to handle when he was very little?
(a) He was hyperactive and very hungry.
(b) He was cruel.
(c) He did not speak the same language as any of them.
(d) He was smelly.

3. Why did Frances Noah refuse to beat the author when the author was a little boy?
(a) She claimed she did not know how to hit a white child.
(b) She thought that beating children was wrong.
(c) She was afraid that Trevor would overpower her.
(d) She did not know whether or not Trevor's mother approved of corporal punishment.

4. 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 left to make it big in America.
(d) He was forced to live on the streets.

5. Who did the author forget was in the house when he defecated on the newspaper?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Koko.
(c) Frances.
(d) Nombuyiselo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a language that Patricia taught to the author?

2. What were the two main things Patricia would spend money on when her son was growing up?

3. What made the author "realize [he] was black" (59)?

4. What nationality is listed on the author's birth certificate?

5. Who taught Patricia how to navigate Johannesburg without being deported to the Bantustans?

(see the answer key)

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