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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, Pages 24-49.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maureen notice about the value of money to the villagers?
(a) It has significant meaning.
(b) They don’t know what money is.
(c) It means more than life.
(d) It has little meaning.

2. What does July’s wife experience for the first time when she meets Maureen?
(a) The meeting of a white woman.
(b) She’s never seen a white.
(c) The touching of white skin.
(d) She’s never heard English.

3. What does July’s son realize in Section 2, that the others do not?
(a) They no longer have money.
(b) The whites are now alone.
(c) The whites are now powerless.
(d) They will eventually be caught.

4. How much time has passed since Maureen and Bam left Johannesburg?
(a) Two years.
(b) Four days.
(c) Six months.
(d) Five years.

5. What does Bam mean when he notes that “women are cowards”?
(a) He means women choose to strike when men are at their weakest.
(b) He means women are weak.
(c) He means women choose to strike when they are at their strongest.
(d) He means women are manipulative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Maureen’s father do for a living?

2. To whom is Maureen introduced in Section 2?

3. What does July offer Maureen in terms of clothing?

4. What do both Maureen and Bam refuse from July at the beginning of the novel?

5. What color is the Smalls' bakkie?

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