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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The World Doesn’t Love You” .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the author feel about his friend Zaheera?
(a) He had a massive crush on her.
(b) He was using her to get closer to her friend, Johanna.
(c) He thought she was annoying.
(d) He was using her to get closer to her friend, Gary.

3. What did the extremely muscular Tsona-speaking man do to end up in jail?
(a) He robbed a store so that he could afford to move out of Alexandra.
(b) He stole playstation games so he could sell them and feed his family.
(c) He murdered a white businessman.
(d) He confessed to a crime he did not commit.

4. What element of American culture does the author equate with freedom in the story, "Go Hitler!"?
(a) Bald eagles.
(b) The American flag.
(c) The constitution.
(d) McDonalds.

5. How does the author describe his dating life when he was in grade 9 at Sandingham?
(a) He was seen as an attractive but dangerous bad boy.
(b) He was so skilled at seduction that other people came to him for advice.
(c) He was not considered popular or attractive.
(d) He had a new girlfriend or boyfriend every week.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author's mother save him from the threatening men on the mini-bus?

2. Why did Patricia warn the author not to tell Abel about the incident under the mulberry tree?

3. Why did the author perform at the Hammanskraal talent show?

4. At the end of the foreword to the story "Born a Crime," the author wrote that apartheid would be easy for occupants of which country to understand?

5. What did the author find inappropriate about the relationship advice Patricia gave him when he was a child?

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