Exam 3: Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Which character is not depicted as a man of charity and goodness?

After returning to Ndotsheni, Stephen Kumalo encounters Arthur Jarvis' son. Later, as a result of his conversation with the boy, the Jarvis farm sends a gift to the village. What is this gift?

Cry, the Beloved Country is principally about

After Stephen Kumalo has returned to Ndotsheni at the end of the novel, who offers him assistance in revitalizing the village?

In keeping with Cry, the Beloved Country's theme of young people leaving their villages for work or for other purposes, where do most of them end up, besides the city slums?

Why were the children dying in Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country?

Stephen Kumalo goes to Johannesburg because

Whose death sends Stephen into a period of such deep despair that he is unable to pray?

Who orchestrates the building of Shanty Town?

Napoleon Letsitsi, an agricultural expert hired by James Jarvis to assist the people of Ndotsheni, states that he works for whom?

On the day Absolom is scheduled to be executed, Stephen Kumalo goes into the mountains around Ndotsheni to pray. Who does he meet while there?

Umfundisi in Cry, the Beloved Country means

What does Stephen learn about his sister Gertrude when he visits the mission?

Why don't black mine workers bring their families to Johannesburg?

Who is the co-defendant to Absalom Kumalo when he is awaiting trial for murder?

When Stephen Kumalo returns from Johannesburg to Ndotsheni, he brings two people with him. Who are these people?

From which European language did Afrikaans, one of the two major South African languages, develop?

Obsession over what substance has led many people into a frenzy over the state of their stocks in Cry, the Beloved Country?

Stephen first travels by bus from his native district to what city?

One of the most forceful themes of Cry the Beloved Country is Paton's pairing of the Native (black) peoples' condition with that of what?