Events
What fruit did the kids pick at the Tree?
Mulberries
How did Trevor describe himself in Eden Park?
An outsider
"At the end of our street in Eden Park, right in a bend at the top of the road, ..."
"At the end of our street in Eden Park, right in a bend at the top of the road, stood a giant mulberry tree growing out of someone’s front yard."
What did Abel do to the kids?
He beat them up
What did the boys do to Trevor at the Mulberry tree?
Throw Mulberries at him because he was colored
What was the unfair test used to test social class called?
The pencil test
"I thought you’d been beaten up. I thought this was blood. ...”
"I thought you’d been beaten up. I thought this was blood. I’m laughing because it’s only berry juice.”
What made Abel so angry that specific moment?
He was drunk
How did the boys hurt Trevor in ways other than throwing stuff at him?
They called him colored slurs.
How did the history of colored people compare to black people? (hint: prologue)
Worse
"it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be..."
"it is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider."
What did Trevor think about Abel's actions?
Regret
How did Trevor's mother react to him coming home after the initial incident?
Worried initially, then amused after realizing it was not blood
Who did Dutch colonists see first at the southern tip of Africa?
Khosian People
"I was crying. He was a colored boy in South Africa, taught how to hate and how to hate himself. ..."'
"I was crying. He was a colored boy in South Africa, taught how to hate and how to hate himself. Who had bullied him that he needed to bully me?"'
What was Abel's relationship with Trevor's mom at the time of the chapter?
Boyfriend
What did Trevor's mom say EXACTLY after she learned Abel knew about what the kids did? (find the quote in the book)
"Don't tell him"
or
"Don't tell them"
What did Trevor say was the worst thing taught from being Colored in Apartheid?
Colored people were taught that black people held them back.
"For the purposes of the state, colored people became..."
"For the purposes of the state, colored people became the almost-whites."
What did Abel threaten to do to the kid's dad?
Kill him