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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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) Tells him not to waste his life.
(c) Tells him to pick up his laundry down the street.
(d) He encourages the man to go back to his family.
2. Which American President does Styles refer to as having an effect on South Africa?
(a) Wilson Woodrow.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Richard Nixon.
3. What character is Buntu played by?
(a) A black child.
(b) A woman.
(c) The same character as Styles.
(d) A white child.
4. What family member does Styles reminisce about at the end of Part 1?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His baby sister.
5. Which culture in Part 1 does Styles says effects the South African economy?
(a) South African.
(b) British.
(c) Persian.
(d) Romanian.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the owner of the house do to help the narrator of the letter while he was supposedly living there?
2. In the words of Styles in Part one, "We own nothing but..."
3. What was the name of the insect spray in the commercial in the first part of the play?
4. What did Styles say he had to go through to attain ownership of a building and a business?
5. What is the name of the character first seen in the opening part of the play?
Short Essay Questions
1. Of what significance is the fact that Styles is the same character as Buntu?
2. Why doesn't Sizwe want to work in the mines?
3. How is it suggested that if an oppressed black man can realize his dreams in a photographic studio, then black people everywhere can realize their dreams no matter what they are?
4. How does Buntu both protest against and sympathize with Sizwe in Part 3?
5. How does the playwright play upon audience curiosity in Part 2?
6. Why, after Sizwe asks Buntu how long it will "last," does Buntu suddenly says he's tired, bid goodnight to Robert and leave?
7. What can be deduced by the audience in regards to the nature of Robert's letter?
8. Explain the meaning behind Styles yelling out for Robert to imagine that he is against the backdrop of the "city of the future".
9. What is the significance of Robert being illuminated in the spotlight with the passbook in hand, segueing into his resuming the narration of the letter to Noweto?
10. In Buntu's story about Jacob, what does the preacher say about death?
This section contains 1,338 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
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