1. Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been ‘only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading… Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and ________?
A:) Lost in the Stars
B:) Too Late the Phalarope
C:) The Naked and the Dead
D:) The Long View
springline- Correct option: C:) The Naked and the Dead
2. Cry, the Beloved Country: Two cinema adaptations of the book have been made, the first in 1951 and the second in 1995. The novel was also adapted as a musical called Lost in the Stars (1949), with a book by the American writer Maxwell Anderson and music composed by the German emigre _______
A:) Kurt Weill
B:) Hugh Masekela
C:) Davido
D:) Mr. Eazi
springline- Correct option: A:) Kurt Weill
3. Cry, the Beloved Country: In the remote village of Ndotsheni, in the Natal province of eastern South Africa, the Reverend Stephen Kumalo receives a letter from a fellow minister summoning him to Johannesburg. He is needed there, the letter says, to help his sister,_______
A:) Msimangu
B:) Gertrude
C:) Mrs. Lithebe
D:) Dubula
springline- Correct option: B:) Gertrude
4. Cry, the Beloved Country: Kumalo undertakes the difficult and expensive journey to the city in the hopes of aiding Gertrude and of finding his son, Absalom, who traveled to Johannesburg from Ndotsheni and never returned. In Johannesburg, Kumalo is warmly welcomed by ______
A:) Msimangu
B:) Tomlinson
C:) Mary Jarvis
D:) Letsitsi
springline- Correct option: A:) Msimangu
5. Cry, the Beloved Country: The priest who sent him the letter, and given comfortable lodging by Mrs. Lithebe, a Christian woman who feels that helping others is her duty. Who visits Gertrude, who is a prostitute and liquor seller, and persuades her to come back to Ndotsheni with her young son ?
A:) Mr. Harrison
B:) Vincent
C:) Margaret
D:) Kumalo
springline- Correct option: D:) Kumalo
6. Cry, the Beloved Country: A more difficult quest follows, when Kumalo and Msimangu begin searching the labyrinthine metropolis of Johannesburg for Absalom. They visit Kumalo's brother, who has become a successful businessman and politician, and he directs them to the factory where his son and Absalom once worked together. What is the name of Kumalo’s brother?
A:) John
B:) Mr. Harrison
C:) Napoleon Letsitsi
D:) Mathew Kumalo
springline- Correct option: A:) John
7. Cry, the Beloved Country: Kumalo discovers that his son has spent time in a reformatory and that he has gotten a girl pregnant. Meanwhile, the newspapers announce that Arthur Jarvis, a prominent white crusader for racial justice, has been murdered in his home by a _______
A:) gang of Wasseypur
B:) gang of burglars
C:) gang of Rock
D:) gang of isaidub
springline- Correct option: B:) gang of burglars
8. Cry, the Beloved Country: Kumalo and Msimangu learn that the police are looking for Absalom, and Kumalo's worst suspicions are confirmed when Absalom is arrested for the murder. Absalom confesses to the crime but states that two others, including John's son, _______?
A:) Dubula
B:) Mr. Carmichael
C:) Johannes Pafuri
D:) Matthew
springline- Correct option: D:) Matthew
9. Cry, the Beloved Country: Kumalo arranges for Absalom to marry the girl who bears his child, and they bid farewell. The morning of his departure, Kumalo rouses his new family to bring them back to Ndotsheni, only to find that , Who has disappeared?
A:) Mary Jarvis
B:) Tomlinson
C:) Gertrude
D:) Absalom’s girlfriend
springline- Correct option: C:) Gertrude
10. Cry, the Beloved Country: Kumalo is now deeply aware of how his people have lost the tribal structure that once held them together and returns to his village troubled by the situation. It turns out that Who has been having similar thoughts?
A:) Mrs. Lithebe
B:) Mrs. Kumalo
C:) Arthur Jarvis
D:) James Jarvis
springline- Correct option: D:) James Jarvis
11. Arthur Jarvis' young son befriends Kumalo. As the young boy and the old man become acquainted, James Jarvis becomes increasingly involved with helping the struggling village. Who donates milk at first, and then makes plans for a dam and hires an agricultural expert to demonstrate newer, less devastating farming techniques?
A:) Theophilus Msimangu
B:) Arthur Jarvis
C:) James Jarvis
D:) John Kumalo
springline- Correct option: C:) James Jarvis
12. When Jarvis’ wife dies, Kumalo and his congregation send a wreath to express their sympathy. Just as the bishop is on the verge of transferring Kumalo, Jarvis sends a note of thanks for the wreath and offers to build the congregation a, _________?
A:) new building
B:) new bridge
C:) new school
D:) new church
springline- Correct option: D:) new church
13. On the evening before his son's execution, Kumalo goes into the mountains to await the appointed time in solitude. On the way, he encounters Jarvis, and the two men speak of the village, of lost sons, and of Jarvis' bright young grandson, whose innocence and honesty have impressed both men. When Kumalo is alone, he weeps for his son’s death and clasps his hands in prayer as dawn breaks over the _______?
A:) valley
B:) lake
C:) bridge
D:) river
springline- Correct option: A:) valley
14. Theophilus Msimangu ,Who is a priest from Johannesburg who helps Kumalo find his son Absalom and his sister Gertrude. Who is a 60-year-old Zulu priest, the father of Absalom, who attempts to find his family in Johannesburg, and later to reconstruct the disintegrating state of his village?
A:) John Kumalo
B:) Stephen Kumalo
C:) Msimangu
D:) James Jarvis
springline- Correct option: B:) Stephen Kumalo
15. The Harrisons ,Who is a father and son who represent two opposing views concerning the racial problem. The father, who is Arthur's father-in-law, represents the traditional view, while the son represents the more liberal view. Who is a big man and he has the ‘heart’ of anything and everything Arthur Jarvis did, including wanting peace between the races?
A:) Stephen Kumalo
B:) Matthew
C:) Dubula
D:) Tomlinson
springline- Correct option: C:) Dubula
16. Absalom's wife, Who is a teenage girl, impregnated by Absalom, whom she later marries. She tells Kumalo that Absalom will be her third husband and that her father had abandoned her family when she was quite young. Given her young age it is unclear if any of these marriages were wholly consensual. Approximately, How many years she old?
A:) 14 years old
B:) 15 years old
C:) 16 years old
D:) 17 years old
springline- Correct option: C:) 16 years old
17. Cry, the Beloved Country is a social protest against the structures of the society that would later give rise to apartheid. Paton attempts to create an unbiased and objective view of the dichotomies it entails: he depicts whites as affected by ‘native crime’ while blacks suffer from social instability and moral issues due to the breakdown of the tribal system. It shows many of the problems with _____?
A:) South Africa
B:) North Africa
C:) East Africa
D:) West Africa
springline- Correct option: A:) South Africa
18. The most evident are the names Paton gives to the characters. Absalom, the son of Stephen Kumalo, is named for the son of King David, who rose against his father in rebellion. Also, in the New Testament Book of Acts, Stephen was a martyr who underwent death by stoning rather than stop declaring the things he believed. The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts are written to Theophilus, which is Greek for ______?
A:) peace of God
B:) God of Poem
C:) friend of God
D:) brother of God
springline- Correct option: C:) friend of God
19. In the novel, Absalom requests that his son be named ‘Peter‘, the name of one of Jesus's disciples. Among Peter's better-known traits is a certain impulsiveness; also, after Christ's arrest, he denied knowing Jesus three times, and later wept in grief over this. After the resurrection, Peter renewed his commitment to Christ and to spreading the _______?
A:) Gospel
B:) Christianity
C:) Mark
D:) Luke
springline- Correct option: A:) Gospel
20. After graduation, Paton worked as an teacher, first at the Ixopo High School, and subsequently at Maritzburg College While at Ixopo he met Dorrie Francis Lusted. They were married in 1928 and remained together until her death from emphysema in 1967. Their life together is documented in Paton's book Kontakion for You Departed, published in ______?
A:) 1967
B:) 1968
C:) 1969
D:) 1970
springline- Correct option: C:) 1969
21. Paton volunteered for service during World War II, but was refused. He toured Scandinavia, England, continental Europe, Canada, and the United States. During his time in Norway, he began work on his seminal novel Cry, The Beloved Country, which he completed over the course of his journey, finishing it on Christmas Eve in San Francisco in _____?
A:) 1943
B:) 1945
C:) 1946
D:) 1947
springline- Correct option: C:) 1946
22. On 9 May 1953, it became the Liberal Party of South Africa, with Paton as a founding co-vice-president, which fought against the apartheid laws introduced by the National Party government. He served as President of the LPSA until its forced dissolution by the government in the late-1960s; officially because its membership comprised both Blacks and Whites. Paton was a friend of_______?
A:) Nadine Gordimer
B:) Bessie Head
C:) Bernard Friedman
D:) Alex La Guma
springline- Correct option: C:) Bernard Friedman
23. Cry, The Beloved Country has been filmed twice (in 1951 and 1995) and was the basis for the Broadway musical Lost in the Stars (adaptation by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill). Paton's second and third novels, Too Late the Phalarope and Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful , and his short stories, Tales From a Troubled Land , all deal with the same themes of____?
A:) racial
B:) colonialism
C:) Social class
D:) feminism
springline- Correct option: A:) racial
24. Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful was built on parallel life stories, letters, speeches, news and records in legal proceedings, and mixed fictional and real-life characters, such as Donald Molteno, Albert Luthuli and Hendrik Verwoerd. The novel is categorised as _______?
A:) fanatic novel
B:) historical fiction
C:) Western fiction
D:) Non- fiction
springline- Correct option: B:) historical fiction
25. Paton was a prolific essay writer on race and politics in South Africa. In Save the Beloved Country he plays on the famous title of his first novel, but keeps a serious tone in discussing many of the famous personalities and issues on different sides of South Africa's apartheid struggle. His Anglican faith was another factor in his life and work: the title of one work is _______?
A:) Instrument of Thy Peace
B:) Too Late the Phalarope
C:) Debbie Go Home
D:) Tales from a Troubled land
springline- Correct option: A:) Instrument of Thy Peace
26. Paton also wrote two autobiographies: Towards the Mountain deals with Paton's life leading up to and including the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country (an event that changed the course of his life) while Journey Continued takes its departure from that time onwards. He also wrote biographies of his friends Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Hofmeyr), and _____?
A:) Olive Scheriner
B:) Akwaeke Emezi
C:) Charles Mungoshi
D:) Geoffrey Clayton
springline- Correct option: D:) Geoffrey Clayton
27. Paton: When he was posthumously awarded the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold ‘Exceptional contribution to literature, exposing the apartheid oppression through his work and fighting for a just and democratic society ?
A:) 19 May 2005
B:) 25 March 2006
C:) 20 April 2006
D:) 19 May 2005
springline- Correct option: C:) 20 April 2006
28. The lush grass of the hills clings to the rain and mist, soaking up the moisture, which in turn feeds every stream. Although cattle graze here, their feeding has not destroyed the land, and the few fires that burn have not harmed the soil. As the hills roll down to the valley below, however, they become red and bare. The grass there has been destroyed by cattle and _____?
A:) fog
B:) storm
C:) rain
D:) fire
springline- Correct option: D:) fire
29. Cry, the Beloved Country: The Reverend Stephen Kumalo, a native Zulu, sits in his house writing when a young girl appears with a letter. After sending the girl to the kitchen for some food, Kumalo wonders who may have sent the letter. It is from ______?
A:) Johannesburg
B:) James Jarvis
C:) Msimangu
D:) Absalom
springline- Correct option: A:) Johannesburg
30. Cry, the Beloved Country: John Harrison who is a the brother of Mary Jarvis, Arthur Jarvis’s wife. John is young and quick-witted, and shares Arthur’s opinions about the rights of the black population in South Africa. He provides companionship to James Jarvis in Johannesburg. Who is a Mary Jarvis’s father?
A:) Vincent
B:) Gertrude
C:) John Kumalo
D:) Mr. Harrison
springline- Correct option: D:) Mr. Harrison