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AP lit first semester exam
cry the beloved country
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Literature
12th Grade
12/11/2012

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"he was old and his black clothes were green with age and his collar was brown with age or dirt...he looked startled and afraid and he was trembling"
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Stephen Kumalo
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"I have a feeling to become a nun"
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Gertrude Kumalo
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"I was frightened. I fired the revolver"
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abasalom kumalo
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"you have said you are a weak and selfish man, but God has put his hands on you."
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Msimangu
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Jarvis's Grandson
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"There is a brightness inside of him"
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"indeed, you are a mother to me" (spoken to?)
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MRs. LIthebe
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"it was the first time he had ever shaken hands with black people"
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James Jarvis
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"He was always pseaking here and there. YOu know the kind of thing, native crime..."
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Arthur Jarvis
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"I want to hear again about your country" (who is speaking)
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Father Vincent
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Kumalo returns to Ndothsheni with both ____and _____.
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gertrude's son and absalom's girlfriend
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Why does Kumalo initially go to Johannesburg?
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Msimangu's letter
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Arthur Jarvis's library contains hundreds of books about one man,_____.
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abraham lincoln
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Kumalo is equipped financiallly to go to johannesburg because he saved money for absalom's education
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When Kumalo searches for Sibeko at Baraba Smith's house, he accidentally runs into _____.
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James Jarvis
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"There outside the door was the milk, in the shining cans in the cart." (speaker, speaking to, when)
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this occurs when Kumalo realizes taht James Jarvis has brought milk to his poor village
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"And the girl bursts suddenly into weeping, so that the woman must say to her, hush, hush, do not cry. She says to her further, our home is simple and quiet, there are no great things there. The girl look sup through her tears and says, mother, that is all that I desire." (when)
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gertrude's first interaction with mrs. kumalo
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"Then he opened the case again, and slipped the book into his pocket, and shut the case...He walked slowly down the stairs, and opened the door into the fatal passage. He took off his hat and looked down at the dark stain on the floor...unseeing, he walked along the passage and out of the door through which death had come so suddenly."
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James Jarvis goes to his son's house after his death and trying to put himself in his son's place the day he died
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"What a friend, said the big bull man. What a friend." "And Kumalo cried at him out of his suffering, my son had 2 cuch friends."
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John Kumalo talking to Stephen Kumalo, Stephen is angry at his brother
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"Shall i get your ticket for you, umfundisi? Then you need not lose your place in the line, while I go to the ticket office."
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ayoung man offers to "help" Kumalo in the train station--he steals Kumalo's money, but says he will buy his ticket
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"They brought many things here, unfundisi, in the late hours of the night. they were clothes, watches, and money, and food in bottles and many other things."
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"this thing that is the heaviest thing of all my years is the heaviest thing of all your years also"
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this is a conversation between stephen kumalo and james jarvis. Kumalo proceeds to tell him that it was his on who killed Jarvis's son
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