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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maureen realize about herself when she bathes in Section 1?
(a) She stinks.
(b) She is frightened.
(c) She has lost weight.
(d) She is overweight.

2. Who warns Bam of an impending bank crisis?
(a) A police officer he helped design a home for.
(b) An accountant he helped design a home for.
(c) His secretary.
(d) A loan officer he helped design a home for.

3. What does Maureen note in Section 3 that she doesn’t want to hear a spiel on?
(a) Whether or not their politics are justified.
(b) Whether or not she is a good mother.
(c) Whether or not their lives are in danger.
(d) Whether or not their old lives were a lie.

4. In Seciton 4, what does July learn to do for himself?
(a) He learns to cook.
(b) He learns to sew.
(c) He learns to sing.
(d) He learns to drive.

5. Where did Maureen obtain the malaria drugs she and Bam take?
(a) She looted them.
(b) She bought them in town.
(c) She got them from July.
(d) She got them from Ellen.

6. What did July bring back with him after taking the bakke without permission?
(a) Money.
(b) Another vehicle.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Food and supplies.

7. What is happening politically, economically, and socially in the novel?
(a) Whites are being sold as slaves.
(b) Democracy is being challenged.
(c) Apartheid is being challenged.
(d) Blacks are being sold as slaves.

8. Why is Maureen hurt by July in Section 5?
(a) She feels her friendliness for him has been misinterpreted.
(b) She feels he cares more for Bam than for her.
(c) She feels she has been lied to.
(d) She feels she is being used.

9. What do July’s daughters seem amazed at regarding July's situation in the city?
(a) July had a separate room to bathe.
(b) July had a separate room to eat.
(c) July had a separate room to sleep.
(d) July had a car.

10. What did Maureen’s father do for a living?
(a) He was an architect.
(b) He was a servant.
(c) He was a shift boss in the mines.
(d) He was a lawyer.

11. What is understood by July's girlfriend in the city to be July’s responsibilities?
(a) His employer.
(b) His children in town.
(c) His children at home.
(d) His children in various places.

12. Who helps the Smalls escape their home at the beginning of the novel?
(a) July.
(b) Nora.
(c) Martha.
(d) Ellen.

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

14. What does Royce continue to ask to do in Section 3?
(a) Go home.
(b) Go to movies.
(c) Eat meat.
(d) Go to school.

15. In Section 3, what has Maureen noticed about items in the village?
(a) They are expensive.
(b) They are stolen by July from her home.
(c) They are purchased by July.
(d) They are handmade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does July say he plans to tell people when they ask about the bakke?

2. What does Maureen become aware of in Section 2 that she is ignorant of in this village?

3. Who used to visit Maureen in the yard with July?

4. What does Maureen see when she steps out for a rain shower in Section 3?

5. What does Maureen ask that puts July ill at ease in Section 5?

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