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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 is the name of the Gold Mine that Nelson goes to in Chapter 9?
(a) Gold and Diamond Mines.
(b) Sample Mines.
(c) Royal Mines.
(d) Crown Mines.

2. What does Nelson do to keep the crowd calm when Yusuf Cachalia is arrested in Chapter 17?
(a) He recites poetry.
(b) He speaks to the crown in Sotho.
(c) He leads an armed rebellion against the police.
(d) He begins singing a protest song.

3. Who represents many of the arrested women in Chapter 28?
(a) No one, it is illegal to represent women in court.
(b) Mandela and Tambo.
(c) The ANC party.
(d) The Nationalist Party.

4. What major event is facing South African in 1958?
(a) A recent earthquake.
(b) The general election.
(c) South African's involvment in American Civil Rights.
(d) An epic drought that wipes out 1/2 of the crops in the country.

5. Where does Nelson first see Winnie?
(a) In Jail.
(b) At a bus stop.
(c) In his office.
(d) At the grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is Winnie and Nelson's marriage?

2. What is May 1st known as in Chapter 13?

3. Why does Nelson march with Gaur in 1943?

4. Who is Professor Andrew Murray?

5. Who gives Nelson his English name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Section 3 of the autobiography end for Nelson?

2. What are the initial goals of the Youth League?

3. How does Nelson describe the Xhosa people in Chapter 1?

4. What are the two sides of the election of 1948?

5. Why do Nelson and his friend Bikitsha end up in jail in Chapter 9?

6. What is a positive side to so many of the ANC leaders being arrested together in Chapter 23?

7. How does Nelson describe Sophiatown in Chapter 17?

8. What is Nelson awoken to at the start of Chapter 23?

9. What happens to Nelson's father in Chapter 3?

10. What sets the firm of Witkin, Sidelsky and Eidelman apart from other law firms at the time?

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