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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of tournaments do they hold on Christmas day, in Chapter 71?

2. Which organization comes to the prison in Chapter 65?

3. What does Colonel Marx ask Nelson in Chapter 92?

4. What does Nelson argue against in Chapter 62?

5. Where in Europe does Nelson go after his travels through Africa in Chapter 48?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Rivonia discovered?

2. How is Nelson's prison stay at Victor Verster different from his previous imprisonments?

3. How does the failure of the stay-at-home in Chapter 41 move the ANC away from nonviolence?

4. How does the ANC change over the course of Chapter 41?

5. How does Botha's resignation move the struggle for freedom in the right direction?

6. What are the "two tracks" that the government and the ANC are working on, according to Nelson in Chapter 88?

7. What does Jimmy Kruger offer Nelson in Chapter 79, and how does Nelson respond?

8. Why is it so hard for people to visit the prisoners on Bobben Island?

9. What is Nelson's experience at Tygerberg Hospital in Chapter 94?

10. What makes Nelson leave Wolfie Kodesh's safehouse in Chapter 43?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Nelson's tactics over the course of the book. How does he continue to fight for freedom year after year? What specific tactics does he use to achieve that freedom?

Essay Topic 2

How do Nelson and the other freedom fighters use their various trials in the text as a way to further advance the fight for equality?

Essay Topic 3

While Nelson's autobiography tells of his fight for racial equality in South Africa, it has been criticized for mostly leaving out the voices of women. Is this text sexist? Explain.

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