What do you think is the closest meaning to the first line: It is lonely at the lands where the people go to plough?
1. There are no external communication or social media connections.
2. Only one family at a time can live there.
3. The villagers work on their farms seven days a week and are so tired they sleep all night
4. The villagers work on their farms all week and can only go home on weekends.
How had the witch-doctors become rich during the early years of the drought?
1. By charging the villagers for water.
2. By lending the villagers money.
3. By selling lucky charms and spells.
4. By treating the sick and injured.
Why were the people called to the village kgotla before traveling to the ploughing fields?
1. So the headman could tell them to hurry because animals were eating the green things that sprang up in their fields.
2. So the headman could announce the start of the ploughing season.
3. Because it was the tribal custom that they all needed to leave the village at the same time.
4. So that a witch-doctor could cast a lucky spell on them.
Why did Mokgobja's family leave early for the ploughing fields?
1. Because they wanted to get the best ploughing land.
2. Because they wanted to plant their seeds as soon as the good rains came.
3. Because there wasn't a lot of water to drink on the way and they wanted to be first to find it.
4. Because they only had one donkey and it was too far to walk.
Why did the family sell most of their herd of goats?
1. They needed money to buy food.
2. They had so many goats that some might escape and eat their crops.
3. The goats they sold were not producing milk any more.
4. They needed money to buy magic charms and herbs from the witch-doctors.
Why were the two girls always speaking angrily?
1. They did not want to die to make the rain-god happy.
2. They were pretending to be like their mother.
3. The hot dry weather made the whole family angry.
4. They couldn't sleep because the two older women sang all night.
Why did the family hurry back to the village early?
1. Because the rain did not come and they had no food to eat.
2. Because they were too scared to stay in the planting fields any longer.
3. Because the people soon noted the absence of the two girls.
4. Because the police had come around looking for the two girls.
What made the police sure that Neo and Boseyong had been killed?
1. The ashen, terror- stricken faces of the family when they talked about it.
2. It was very strange for the two deaths to happen at the same time.
3. The family saying that they did not know what the children had died of.
4. The family being unable to take them to see the chilren's graves.
How did the police find out what really happened to Neo and Boseyong?
1. The other villagers told them about it.
2. Ramadi told the whole story in court.
3. Tiro, the girl's mother told them about it.
4. They found the bodies spread across the land.
What were the other farmers most happy about at the end of the story?
1. The death of Neo and Boseyong had brought the rain.
2. Mokgobja and Ramadi were executed for the killings.
3. They didn't meet the same end as the Mokgobja and Ramadi.
4. They finally knew how Neo and Boseyong had died.