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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 71- 108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Lionel been imprisoned?
(a) For theft.
(b) For fighting against apartheid.
(c) For treason.
(d) For attmepting to overthrow the government.

2. Why is Rosa engaged to Noel de Witt?
(a) So she can visit him in prison and get information for her parents.
(b) Because she loves him.
(c) He is a journalist who will help her father.
(d) He is a revolutionary who intrigues Rosa.

3. Of what does Rosa's mother die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Multiple Sclerosis.
(c) Capital Punishment.
(d) Starvation.

4. What does the watchman come to see Conrad about?
(a) Rosa.
(b) A bet.
(c) A meeting for black people.
(d) A ship.

5. What does Lionel teach Bassie?
(a) How to swim.
(b) How to dive.
(c) How to play soccer.
(d) How to pitch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bassie?

2. Who is Theo?

3. Why does Rosa move out of the cottage?

4. Why is the group knocking at the prison door in the opening pages of the novel?

5. What does Rosa consider a sickness?

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