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

2. What is the name of Zwelinzima's wife in Part 2?
(a) Neema.
(b) Noweto.
(c) Neemi.
(d) Notomo.

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

4. What does Styles convince Zwelinzima to do in Part 2?
(a) To pray for a good picture.
(b) Take two more pictures.
(c) Take a second picture.
(d) To laugh out loud.

5. Which adjective best describes the man who Styles first lets into his shop?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Decrepit.
(c) Austere.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which American President does Styles refer to as having an effect on South Africa?

2. In what country is this story set?

3. How does Zwelinzima explain the series of happenings that apparently gave him only three days to leave his dwelling?

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

5. When Styles gives the pictures back to the family member, what does the family member begin to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Styles' three stories also paint a clear picture of the living situation of black workers in South Africa in the time of Apartheid?

2. Explain how as an audience, we know from the very opening scene that this play will involve the concepts of racial discrimination against blacks, and their struggles.

3. Explore the ways in which the playwright incorporates the idea of freedom into this part of the play.

4. How is Buntu's display in order to convince Sizwe to change identities particularly powerful?

5. 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?

6. How is the name "Doom" significant in Styles' story about the cockroach problem?

7. What is the passbook a symbol of?

8. Expand on the significance of the idea of transformation in this play.

9. When Sizwe describes how the passbook goes with him everywhere, what else could he be describing?

10. In Buntu's story about Jacob, what does the preacher say about death?

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