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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who effectively saves Kumalo from being sent away by the Bishop?
2. Who does Absalom claim planned the time and place for the house break?
3. Who has disappeared on the morning Kumalo is set to return to Ndotsheni?
4. Which statement best describes John Harrison Sr. and Jr.’s relationship with blacks’ rights?
5. How did the three accomplices disguise themselves during the housebreak?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize the main events of the meeting between James Jarvis and Kumalo at the house of Jarvis’ kinswoman Barbara Smith.
2. Describe the final meeting between Stephen and John Kumalo.
3. How does the village chief’s interaction with the magistrate and James Jarvis support John Kumalo’s earlier statement about chiefs, “He is a trick, a trick to hold together something that the white man desires to hold together.”
4. What surprises James Jarvis most about people’s reaction to his son’s death?
5. Compare and contrast the lifestyles of James Jarvis and Stephen Kumalo living so close to each other in the Natal province.
6. Compare and contrast Napoleon’s and Kumalo’s attitudes towards James Jarvis.
7. Explain the metaphorical usage of the rainstorm that occurs in Book Three, Chapter 3.
8. What is the Judge’s ruling in the cases against Absalom and his two accomplices, Johannes and Matthew, and what are the Judge’s reasons for his verdicts?
9. What anxiety does Kumalo have over the death of Margaret Jarvis, and how does James Jarvis ease it?
10. In Book Two, Chapter Five, who does the author make ultimately responsible for South African law, Judges or white South Africans, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the character of Absalom in Cry, the Beloved Country. What is Absalom's place in the plot of the story? What is Absalom accused of? What is the ruling in his case?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the changes in Johannesburg from the time that the novel is set to today. How has Apartheid changed and is it still practiced in South Africa? What has prompted the changes in the country?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss various adaptations of Cry, the Beloved Country and their relationship to the novel. What films have been made based upon the novel? What are the complications that a screenwriter might have in adapting this novel to the screen?
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