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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is Buntu played by?
(a) A woman.
(b) A white child.
(c) The same character as Styles.
(d) A black child.

2. What was the owner of the car manufacturing plant's name?
(a) Henry Ford Sr.
(b) Henry Ford Jr.
(c) John Williamson.
(d) James T Phillips.

3. What did Styles realized was infested with cockroaches?
(a) His sink.
(b) His bedroom.
(c) The building.
(d) His shop.

4. What is the main character reading at the opening of the play?
(a) A book.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A letter.
(d) A magazine.

5. How many pictures does Zwelinzima want taken in Part 2?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Two.

6. What does Styles tell the man who is picking up his family photos to do?
(a) Tells him to move on with his life.
(b) He encourages the man to go back to his family.
(c) Tells him not to waste his life.
(d) Tells him to pick up his laundry down the street.

7. How did Styles interpret the speech given by the car manufacturer owner?
(a) In a nervous manner.
(b) Very accurately.
(c) He twisted the words to make fun of the owner and the plant.
(d) He acted as though he couldn't understand the owner.

8. How long did Styles say the owner of the car manufacturing plant stay at the plant?
(a) Two days.
(b) Five minutes.
(c) One week.
(d) Four hours.

9. What does the owner of the car manufacturing plant call himself in his speech to the plant workers?
(a) A visionary.
(b) A bloody fool.
(c) A wise man.
(d) A learned man.

10. What interrupts Styles' story to the audience at the end of Part 1?
(a) A scream outside.
(b) A knock on the door.
(c) A man yelling from upstairs.
(d) Styles falling asleep.

11. Which car manufacturing plant did Styles originally work for?
(a) Fiat.
(b) Honda.
(c) Ford.
(d) Chevrolet.

12. Which culture in Part 1 does Styles says effects the South African economy?
(a) British.
(b) Persian.
(c) South African.
(d) Romanian.

13. In whose house does Zwelinzima say that he stayed while narrating his letter?
(a) Buntu.
(b) Maloo.
(c) Guntu.
(d) Zola.

14. What did Styles say he had to go through to attain ownership of a building and a business?
(a) Too much pain.
(b) Hell.
(c) Bureacracy.
(d) Insanity.

15. What is the name of the man with whom Styles first interacts?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Zweli.
(c) Robert.
(d) Ron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Styles call his photography room?

2. According to Styles, what happened to his father after he returned home from the war?

3. What did the owner of the house do to help the narrator of the letter while he was supposedly living there?

4. What memento does Styles have left of his father?

5. In the letter being read aloud in Part 2, what does it declare about Sizwe Banzi?

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