Life and Times of Michael K Quizzes

Life and Times of Michael K Quiz 1

1 Where is the novel set?
South Africa

Nigeria

Namibia

Democratic Republic of the Congo
2 What is the larger social context of the novel?
WWII

Apartheid

Imperialism

WWI
3 What is the fictive social context?
A disease

A war with a neighboring country

A natural disaster

A civil war
4 The narrators are a third-person narrator following K and a first-person narrator, _____.
the Police Officer

the Medical Officer

the Guard

the Nurse
5 What facial feature marks K?
A bad eye

Missing teeth

A harelip

Scarring
6 K spends most of his childhood
with extended family

at a boarding school

with his mother

in a state-run institution
7 Anna works as a
nurse

domestic servant

janitor

cook
8 K's job as an adult is
a driver

a gardener

a cook

a janitor
9 K thinks his purpose in life is
to be a gardener

to take care of his mother

to become a doctor

to escape Sea Point
10 All of the following describe K and Anna's life in Sea Point except
the Buhrmanns are cruel to them

the weather is very rainy and damp

the room they stay in is small and cramped

it is increasingly unstable
11 How do K and Anna have to travel when they decide to leave?
A wagon

Walking and the barrow

The train

A convoy
12 Why are K and his mother turned back on their first attempt?
They have no money

They are the wrong race

They have no permits

They are deemed criminals
13 What happens to Anna?
She abandons K

She takes her own life

She falls ill and dies

She is injured and dies
14 K leaves the hospital with all the following except
his mother's ashes

a permit

the cart

new clothes
15 Who steals K's money?
A child

A man on the road

A soldier

A police officer
16 The first time K is captured, he ends up in
prison

a forced labor gang

a rehabiltation camp

a medical camp
17 What kind of work does K do?
Working in the mines

Building barracks

Mending fences

Clearing rocks from railway tracks
18 Who are the Visagies?
Landowners in Prince Albert

Fellow workers in the labor gang

People K meets on the road

Politicians in Sea Point
19 What is unknown about K?
His race

His intelligence

His father's identity

All of these
20 What animal does K capture and eat?
Dog

Cow

Pig

Goat
21 What does K find pleasure in while at the farm?
Running

Reading

Cultivating

Hunting
22 All of the following are true about the boy who shows up at the farm except
He does not believe K works for the family

He is the grandson of the Visagies

He wants K to act as a servant for him

He is a deserter
23 Where does K live after he leaves the farmhouse?
A camp

A hideout he constructs

Caves in the mountains

Down by the dam
24 In the mountains, all the following occur except
K grows very ill

K is extremely idle

K only tries to survive

K regrets having left the farm
25 Where is K taken after he leaves the hospital?
Jakkalsdrif

Vrouevereniging

Kenilworth

Sea Point

what is the relocation camp that Michael ended up in?

I think that was the Jakkalsdrif relocation camp.

Asked by ayanda z #1189323

Answered by Aslan on 11/7/2021 5:25 PM

In point form, trace every incident in the text which resonates with the concept of the "other''

This is only a short answer space. The entire life of Michael K shows how much personal freedom and freedom of movement are important. The poorer—and, though not explicitly stated, blacker—denizens of South Africa see that their lives and their...

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what starts the riots?

The residents of cape town begins the riots which prevent Michael and his mom from making an easy journey to the farm where she grew up.

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Answered by tracey c #171707 on 9/26/2011 7:21 PM

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