ELA B10 - Racism, Stereotypes, & Prejudice

Question 1

WF : What was the apartheid?

Answer 1

A civil war against the Dutch South Africans and the Black South Africans.

Question 2

WF : Why did Mark skip school and stay at the tennis ranch?

Answer 2

Schools were unsafe due to police taking kids away their classes and sometimes resulted into raiding their homes.

Question 3

WF : What was Mark’s main goal?

Answer 3

To play Tennis and study in Amercia.

Question 4

WF : Is Helmut a good tennis player?

Answer 4

No, he was described to be a ‘hacker’.

Question 5

WF : What does Helmut offer which was weird to Mark?

Answer 5

Friendship.

Question 6

WF : Why was Helmut offering friendship weird?

Answer 6

Because white people and black people did not get along at this time.

Question 7

WF : Where does Helmut live / reside in currently?

Answer 7

Hillbrow

Question 8

WF : What arrangement does Helmut ask Mark due to his living arrangements?

Answer 8

To drop him off to his house.

Question 9

WF : When playing who stared at the pair like aliens?

Answer 9

White people

Question 10

WF : What does Helmut think of the apartheid?

Answer 10

That white people are stubborn and will not see everyone has human.

Question 11

WF : What does Helmut compare the apartheid too?

Answer 11

Nazi Occupied Germany and what Hitler did to Germany

Question 12

WF : Does Mark know what the Holocaust is?

Answer 12

No.

Question 13

WF : What information does Mark and Helmut exchange?

Answer 13

The Holocaust and Mark’s personal life and the struggles of being a black man in the apartheid.

Question 14

WF : What do other black people call Mark after they see him with a white man?

Answer 14

Traitor

Question 15

WF : What does monolithic mean?

Answer 15

Large / Massive

Question 16

WF : Where do we see Helmut’s loyalty?

Answer 16

Where Helmut says he’ll take the beating if he stumbles into it. And if he can run, he will run.

Question 17

WF : How may shadowy figures were there?

Answer 17

10

Question 18

WF : What was the purpose of the shadowy figures?

Answer 18

To beat up Mark.

Question 19

WF : Who was the shadowy figure’s leader?

Answer 19

Jarvas

Question 20

WF : What do we know about black communities at this time in the apartheid?

Answer 20

That they disliked whites.

Question 21

WF : What did Mark do after Jarvas’ gang went to him?

Answer 21

He ran away home with injuries.

Question 22

WF : What was his mom doing before he came home?

Answer 22

Ironing his sister’s pants.

Question 23

WF : What do we learn about his dad’s view on white people?

Answer 23

That he hates them.

Question 24

WF : What does the mother say to Mark about whites and blacks?

Answer 24

That black people are too angry, too desperate.

Question 25

WF : What does the mother mean with her last sentence?

Answer 25

That black people have been oppressed for so long that hate lingers for white people. They are desperate for equality and some are desperate for something greater.

Question 26

SWARA : Where does Carole sit on the flight?

Answer 26

12a

Question 27

SWARA : What was the first semi-racist or racially insensitive did the man beside her do?

Answer 27

Exclaim that he never knew black dolls existed and for a moment refuses to give her doll back.

Question 28

SWARA : What was the second semi-racist or racially insensitive did the man beside her do?

Answer 28

Stare at her / Investigating her

Question 29

SWARA : Why isn’t Carole’s parents there?

Answer 29

She is travelling alone to meet her grandparents.

Question 30

SWARA : What does the couple say about mixed people?

Answer 30

The world isn’t ready for it.

Question 31

SWARA : When does the couple start to be racist?

Answer 31

Asking a child ‘what’ she is.

Question 32

SWARA : Carole doesn’t understand but feels angry. Why?

Answer 32

Her innocence sheltered her from truly feeling the angry from what the question meant. However, she still felt angry.

Question 33

SWARA : The couple pushes Carole for answers. Why does she hesitates to answer?

Answer 33

Her innocence sheltered her.

Question 34

SWARA : What does Mrs. Norton call her?

Answer 34

Mulatto

Question 35

SWARA : What does Mulatto mean?

Answer 35

Means bi-racial people. Root word is donkey in Spanish.

Question 36

SWARA : What does Carole do after a flight attendant comes to serve orange juice?

Answer 36

She snaps because she felt a rush of courage.

Question 37

SWARA : What does Carol make a comparison too?

Answer 37

If the couple think that her parents are a colouring book.

Question 38

SWARA : What year is it?

Answer 38

1970

Question 39

SWARA : How do we know what year it is?

Answer 39

A passenger says “Imagine, someone talking to a child like that, in 1970!”

Question 40

DW : What is Maggie’s Job?

Answer 40

Housecleaner

Question 41

DW : What did Maggie think of this job?

Answer 41

That it was like going to school because most of them were kind and thought her things.

Question 42

DW : Who did she work for?

Answer 42

A lawyer’s house, the Brisseys, Mrs. Forsberg, the Friendmans, Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Jackson

Question 43

DW : What did her daughter win?

Answer 43

Won a posture contest.

Question 44

DW : Why did Mrs. Forsberg stop calling her to the table?

Answer 44

Because her guests were belittling her daughter.

Question 45

DW : What did Mrs. Tucker accuse Maggie of?

Answer 45

Stealing coffee.