Selection Quick Checks (English)



1.	What does Mathabane, the author of the autobiography, say are the first things children learn in the environment in which he lived?
	A.	to fight, steal, and rebel
	B.	to value education and intelligence
	C.	to admire the government and the police
	D.	to respect the power of peaceful protest

2.	Why did Mathabane's mother ask Granny and Aunt Bushy to come to her house early in the morning?
	A.	to teach the boy to read
	B.	to help sew new clothes for the boy
	C.	to help get the boy to school
	D.	to help wash the boy

3.	What was the first political obstacle the Mathabanes faced to get their son to school?
	A.	overcoming the strict dress codes at the new school
	B.	obtaining the boy's birth certificate and other papers
	C.	finding a school that would accept the boy
	D.	getting the school fee lowered so they could afford the school

4.	What does Mathabane's mother value most?
	A.	prevention of poverty
	B.	equal rights for women
	C.	money in the bank
	D.	education for her children

5.	Why didn’t Mathabane's mother go to school?
	A.	She followed tribal traditions that considered educating women unnecessary.
	B.	Her family could not afford to send her to school.
	C.	She was not interested in going to school.
	D.	There were no schools available to her as a child.

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