Characters
Random Novel Facts
Events in the Plot
Vocabulary
South Africa Facts
100
Name of Naledi and Tiro's baby sister.
Who is Dineo
100
The doctor recommends that Dineo get more of these three things to stay healthy.
What are milk, fruits and vegetables.
100
Naledi and Tiro witness this at the train station.
What is a Pass Raid.
100
A British motor truck.
What is a lorry.
100
The name for the legal system of segregation in South Africa.
What is apartheid.
200
Naledi and Tiro spend the night with her.
Who is Grace
200
Black South Africa schools are only teaching students the skills required for these kinds of jobs.
What are servant or laborer jobs.
200
Tiro is fascinated by this in Mma's boss's house.
What is an electric light or a light switch.
200
To gleam or flash briefly.
What is glint.
200
Name for the earth that was dug up near Johannesburg to get to the gold.
What is a mine dump.
300
The children's Rra died of this.
What is Coughing Sickness
300
Tiro, Paul, and Jonas play with these toys.
What are wire cars.
300
Naledi hopes one day to have this job.
What is a doctor.
300
Sudden loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.
What is dismay.
300
White suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa where Mma worked.
What is Parktown.
400
She gives Naledi and Tiro sweet potatoes and a bottle of water for their journey.
Who is Poleng
400
What the schoolchildren were protesting.
What is "what the white government wanted them to know."
400
When the young woman came out of the doctor's office, she was carrying this.
What is her dead baby in a plastic bag.
400
Not clearly stated or expressed.
What is vague.
400
Many black South Africans, including Naledi and Tiro's uncle, were sent here if they were caught without their passes.
What is a prison farm.
500
Mma's name.
What is Joyce.
500
When the school children protested, it was called this.
What is a "Time of Fire."
500
Naledi and Tiro spend the night with Grace and her brothers in this suburb of Johannesburg.
What is Soweto.
500
Arbitrary and cruel exercise of power.
What is oppression.
500
This means SHUT UP in the Afrikaans language.
What is HOU JOU BEK!
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