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

2. What does Maureen understand must be balanced in black affairs?
(a) Money and desire.
(b) Desire and duty.
(c) Love and money.
(d) Duty and love.

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

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

5. Why can’t the Smalls fly overseas?
(a) They can’t reach the airport.
(b) The planes are broken.
(c) The don’t have money.
(d) Rebels are shooting down the planes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bam’s profession?

2. What have the boys learned to do instead of us toilet paper?

3. What does Maureen believe about July as he addresses her and Bam in Section 4?

4. Where does July note that he was during his time away with the bakke?

5. What makes the children happy, as nothing can?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening in South Africa at the time of the novel?

2. What does July learn to do in Section 4, and who teaches him?

3. 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?

4. Explain where the Smalls find themselves in the opening section, and where they came from.

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

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

7. What happened to the blacks under the Small’s employ, including July?

8. What does July say that makes Maureen equally angry in Section 5?

9. Describe the photograph of young Maureen and her housekeeper Lydia, and why it is important.

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

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