Author Context
How did Rive die?
Stabbed to death.
What is Ma’s name?
Maria Wilhelmina Loupser
What was the early missionary society in South Africa?
Moravian Mission.
True or False, any segragation systems can be considered apartheid.
False.
What's the author's name?
Richard Rive.
What was Rive’s first novel a protest against?
Apartheid.
What is significant about Mavis’s father?
He is white.
What denomination is the Dutch Reformed Church?
Protestant.
What are prominent examples of colonialism in the text?
The religious aspects.
What is the opening scene?
A funeral.
What was Rive’s profession?
An English teacher.
Why is mavis mad at her mother?
She is accepting apartheid.
Who influenced the Dutch Reformed Church?
John Calvin.
What is the distinction between colorism and racism?
Shade vs Identification.
What point of view is this written in?
Third person.
Where in South Africa was Rive from?
Cape Town, Africa.
What makes Mavis different from her siblings?
She is the most “black”.
What was enhanced/justified by Christianity?
Apartheid.
What is the group of native South African people mentioned in the historical context section called?
Khoekhoe.
Where did the funeral take place?
In their house (in a back room).
What Oxford college did Rive attend?
Magdalen College.
What are the names of Mavis’s siblings?
Rosie, Sonny, and Jim.
What year did the Dutch Reformed Church acknowledge apartheid as a sin?
1998
What century was South Africa colonized and who were the first settler colonizers?
Late 1600's and Dutch.
What is the central tension of the story?
Race and familial relationships.