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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bam do for leisure in Section 3?
(a) He sings with the villagers.
(b) He drinks beer with the villagers.
(c) He plays sports with the villagers.
(d) He spends time with his family.

2. What has Maureen learned to make appropriately by Section 4?
(a) Spinach.
(b) Warthog.
(c) Meal.
(d) Porridge.

3. What is Bam’s profession?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Architect.
(d) Neuroscientist.

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

5. What do both Maureen and Bam refuse from July at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Milk.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does July bring into the hut in Section 4?

2. What is happening politically, economically, and socially in the novel?

3. What does July’s mother eventually do as she carries wood in Section 5?

4. What is July’s reaction to the medication his wife gave Maureen?

5. What does Bam do to try to reconcile after his argument with Maureen in Section 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the relationship between July’s “town woman” and July? What was the relationship between July's town woman and Maureen?

2. Describe the situation with the vehicle in Section 3.

3. What does Maureen mean when she says “death is a purchase” (pg 65)?

4. Why is July so humiliated that Maureen doesn’t like him having the car keys?

5. What does Maureen realize now about how she treated July, and her assumption that he has taken the keys as one friend takes them from another?

6. What is July’s plan to tell people, when they question his driving of the bakke, and why does Bam object?

7. What types of items does July continue to bring the Smalls family, even in his village?

8. Describe what Bam and July are able to make for the village.

9. Explain Maureen’s reaction to meeting Martha and July’s mother in Section 2.

10. What do Maureen and Bam argue about in Section 3?

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