Cry, Beloved Country Recap

When was Cry, the Beloved Country written?

• 1940

• 1946

• 1953

• 1964

What is Msimangu's first name?

• William

• Theosophilus

• Reverend

• Stephen

What is Stephen Kumalo's sister called?

• Annabelle

• Gertrude

• Lithebe

• Mary

What type of narrator is used here? "His eyes filled with tears and deep gentleness returned to him"

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

• Fourth person

Which word means "all knowing"?

• Omnipresent

• Omnipotent

• Omniscient

• Omnibrow

Who says "there is no proof that my son...was there at all"

• Stephen Kumalo

• The chief of the reformatory

• John Kumalo

• Theophilus Msimangu

What place is being described here? "great gate in the grim high wall"

• The reformatory

• The mission house

• The prison

• The shanty town

What phrase did Absalom repeat frequently during his reunion with his father?

• I am sorry

• I do not know

• No my father

• I have nothing to say

What is the Zulu word for 'god'?

• Umfundisi

• Kloof

• Tixo

• Kraal

What is the language of the white/European inhabitants of South Africa in the novel?

• Xhosa

• English

• Zulu

• Afrikaans