Keeping Fit

Gordimer Facts

100

Where was Gordimer born?

South Africa

200

What is a novel by Gordimer?

1. The Lying Days (1953)
2. A World of Strangers (1958)
3. An Occasion for Loving (1963)
4. The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
5. A Guest of Honour (1970)
6. The Conservationist (1974)
7. Burger’s Daughter (1979)
8. July’s People (1981)
9. A Sport of Nature (1987)
10. My Son’s Story (1990)
11. None to Accompany Me (1994)
12. The House Gun (1998)
13. The Pickup (2001)
14. Get a Life (2005)
15. No Time Like the Present (2012)

300

How old was Gordimer when her first work was published?

15

400

What year did she win the Nobel Prize in Literature? 

1991

500

What is the name of one of Gordimer's children?

Hugo, Oriane

Characters

100

What race is the runner?

South African, white

200

True or False: The runner saved the bird from the drain pipe at the end of the story?

False

300

How many people were living in the woman's shack?

7

400

How many children does the runner have?

3

500

Where does the runner live?

Alicewood

Random

100

Where was the baby bird trapped?

In the drainpipe

200

What were one of the weapons that the group of black people that were in pursuit had?

sledge hammer, butcher's knife, cleaver, knobbed clubs, long pieces of wire, 

300

What is the first word in the story?

Breathe

400

When the runner is running back home, what are the people in the car that pass him going to do?

Play golf

500

How many birds were on slide 8?

20