Mine Boy Quizzes

Mine Boy Quiz 1

1 Who narrates Mine Boy?
A third-person omniscient narrator

Eliza

Xuma

An unnamed first-person narrator
2 Who is the novel's protagonist?
Johannes

Leah

Eliza

Xuma
3 What year was Mine Boy published?
1918

1946

2006

1989
4 Who is the author of Mine Boy?
Xuma

Peter Abrahams

Ruth Yudelowitz

Paddy O'Shea
5 Where is Mine Boy primarily set?
Hoopvlei

Kenya

Malay Camp and Johannesburg

Vredredorp
6 What does Bantu mean?
White

Colored

Black

None of these
7 What type of mine does Xuma work at?
Diamond

Gold

Quartz

Coal
8 Who becomes an enemy of Leah?
Eliza

Dladla

Xuma

Daddy
9 Who is Xuma's primary love interest?
Eliza

Maisy

Leah

Di
10 Who is the Red One?
The mine's owner

A sunburned mine worker

Xuma's boss Paddy

None of these
11 What color is the sand extracted from the mines?
Black

White

Beige

Silver
12 Where does Xuma come from?
Malay Camp

The north

Hoopvlei

Johannesburg
13 What does Dladla brandish at the beginning of the novel?
A knife

A gun

A cane

A sword
14 Who takes Xuma in on his first night in Malay Camp?
Leah

Eliza

Lena

Ma Plank
15 Which characters fight each other on Xuma's first morning in the city?
Eliza and Leah

Leah and Fat Liz

Lena and Fat Liz

Maisy and Eliza
16 What time of night does Xuma arrive in Malay Camp?
Two in the morning

Three in the morning

Midnight

One in the morning
17 What does Leah do before letting Xuma into her home?
Kisses him

Looks him over with a flashlight

Tests his strength

None of these
18 What is Xuma's first impression of the people he meets at Leah's?
They are strange people who believe in nothing

They are all drunks

They smell very good to him

They are strangely friendly
19 What chases Xuma out of his room on the first morning at Leah's?
Eliza

A bee

A wasp

A horsefly
20 Who takes Xuma into the city on his first day?
Joseph

Daddy

J.P. Williamson

Johannes
21 How much does it cost for Leah to bribe the policeman?
Ten pounds

Ten dollars

Five pounds

Twenty dollars
22 Who advises Xuma to stretch out and relax on his first day at the mines?
Nana

Joseph

Paddy

Johannes
23 What does Xuma think Eliza looks like?
A supermodel

A statue

A smooth fresh brown flower

An actress
24 What technology does Xuma associate with white people?
Phones

Electric lights

Computers

Cars
25 Why does Xuma come to Malay Camp?
To work in the mines

To drink

To escape his family

He was told to leave his village

which Quote on page 38 on the novel shows that Xuma negotiate the intricacies of racial capitalism and gender withinthe novel

PASS NATIVE XUMA GANG LEADER FOR MR PADDY O'SHEA

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I want a short summary about chapter five only of mine boy

In Chapter Five of "Mine Boy" by Peter Abrahams, the focus shifts to the struggles of the characters as they navigate the harsh realities of life in the mining community. The chapter highlights the challenges faced by the protagonist, Xuma, as he...

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Mine boy by John Abraham

Though Mine Boy was published two years before the first official apartheid law was enacted, the novel depicts the racial separation that would be increased during the apartheid era. The illegal beer selling Leah engages in results from a law that...

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Mine Boy

by Peter Abrahams

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