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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Buntu tell Sizwe to do instead of continuing to live in the country they are in illegally?
(a) To only come on a tourist visa.
(b) To leave and go to Japan.
(c) To go home.
(d) To go home and come back to get a new passport.

2. In Part 4, how does Sizwe begin telling the audience about going to a bar with Buntu?
(a) Through narrating his experience to Buntu the next day.
(b) By narrating his letter to Noweto.
(c) By narrating the dream he had that night.
(d) By shouting angrily about his memories of the bar.

3. What is a common theme between what Styles went through to get his shop and what Sizwe would have to go through to get a new passbook?
(a) Bureaucracy.
(b) Failure.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Pain.

4. What does Buntu reluctantly do after Sizwe suggests that they let whoever's there know what's happened?
(a) He asks someone to call the police.
(b) He asks the man his name.
(c) He walks back to the bar.
(d) He gets the man's passbook.

5. In what profession has Sizwe heard of too many men dying?
(a) Rickshaw driving.
(b) Taxi driving.
(c) Mining.
(d) Messengers.

6. When Buntu comes out of the bar to join Sizwe in Part 4, what does he suggest?
(a) That they should find prostitutes.
(b) That he wants to have one more drink before leaving.
(c) That they should go back into the bar.
(d) That it's time to go home.

7. What does Buntu remind Sizwe about the possibility of getting a new passbook?
(a) The dangers of reporting it.
(b) The ease of getting it with the right amount of money.
(c) The bureaucracy involved in it.
(d) The low chances of being able to actually renew it.

8. At what affair did the preacher speak, according to Buntu?
(a) At a funeral.
(b) At a wedding.
(c) At a baptism.
(d) At a church liturgy.

9. When Buntu sees the address of the dead man, what does he do?
(a) He warns Sizwe to leave this book alone.
(b) He encourages Sizwe to sell the book.
(c) He refuses to go to that part of town.
(d) He explains how rich that part of town is.

10. How does Buntu answer to Sizwe's angry question regarding the dead man?
(a) He shouts that Sizwe is a real character.
(b) He yells that Sizwe is stupid.
(c) He doesn't answer.
(d) He laughs at Sizwe's naivete.

11. What does Buntu say to Sizwe in regards to seeing Sizwe's information in Part 3?
(a) That he should go undercover.
(b) That he should be ok as long as he leaves soon.
(c) That he's a very smart man.
(d) That now he's in real trouble.

12. What did Buntu say the preacher compare death to in his speech?
(a) A measure of a man's life.
(b) A final goodbye.
(c) A contract with God.
(d) A natural occurence.

13. .What does Buntu tell Sizwe to do after they have a fight outside of the bar?
(a) To forget it all.
(b) To remember this moment.
(c) To get lost.
(d) To come home.

14. Where is Sizwe when he introduces himself to other people on the night he went to the bar with Buntu?
(a) Outise of Buntu's car.
(b) Out on the street in front of the bar.
(c) In the back alley of the bar.
(d) Outside of Buntu's house.

15. Where does Sizwe say the raid took place?
(a) On Sizwe's old home.
(b) At Buntu's old village.
(c) On Zola's home.
(d) At the old dance hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first suggestion by Sizwe to Buntu regarding his discovery in the alleyway?

2. What is Sizwe's first question to Buntu?

3. What might Buntu's story about Jacob be meant to offer Sizwe?

4. What does the significance of the dead man's name suggest?

5. What does Buntu suggest Sizwe do for work back in his home country?

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