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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "My Mother's Life".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Immorality Act passed?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1877.

2. What does the author suspect of his friend from Alexandra who lost his retail job?
(a) He suspected his friend never got a job to begin with.
(b) He suspected his friend had an even better job lined up next.
(c) He suspected his friend lost the job on purpose.
(d) He suspected his friend was a murderer.

3. Who taught Patricia how to navigate Johannesburg without being deported to the Bantustans?
(a) Mini-bus drivers.
(b) Police.
(c) Food vendors.
(d) Prostitutes.

4. What happened when the author tried to show his friend how to burn his name into pieces of wood?
(a) They wrote their names in the side of the house and got in trouble.
(b) They accidentally burned down the author's friend's house.
(c) His friend wrote a bad word and blamed it on the author.
(d) The author and his friend started a moderately successful wood furnishing business.

5. What does the author say is impressive about the timing of his mother's decision to have him?
(a) She chose to have him even though it would have been very expensive at the time.
(b) She chose to have him even though she could still remember her mistreatment by the hands of her own family.
(c) She chose to have him before she knew apartheid would end.
(d) She chose to have him at a time when the world's population was increasing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the author able to help Andrew and Bolo increase profits in their CD burning business?

2. How did the mothers of Alexandra feel about the author and his fellow "cheese boys"?

3. In what country did the author grow up?

4. Who were the author's number one customers?

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

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