Chapter 11

1. On what ground did Woods escape prison?
2. What did policemen ask for when they checked on Evelina at night?
3. Find examples of derogatory language they use with her.
4. How do you explain Woods' agressive behaviour - it's the first time he holds a gun? Would he have done so a few months before?
5. What happened to Mapetla? Dev.

Chapter 12

1. Explain what "road blocks" are.
2. When did Biko die?
3. What dilemna did the doctor face?
4. What did the police say Biko died of?
5. How did people react to Biko's death? Why do you think it was an important date and event? Dev.

Chapter 13

1. What happened to Woods' family while he went to Pretoria?
2. What did he decide to do then?
3. How did he learn he wasn't a free man any more?
4. What charge is he facing then? For how many years?
5. How do you think Woods is going to keep Biko's ideas alive? Dev.

Quotes from Biko:
# "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."
# "Even today, we are still accused of racism. This is a mistake. We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior."

Chapter 14

1. What parallel can you draw between Gandhi and Biko, to your knowledge?
2. What are the two allies Biko think they have in the long run?
3. What are Woods' arguments to leave the country? What are Wendy's to stay?
4. What would you do if you were them? Dev.
5. What event made Wendy change her mind ?

Quotes from Ghandi:
"Live simply that others simply live"
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

Chapter 15

1. What was Woods'initial plan to escape South Africa?
2. Whose identity was he supposed to take up?
3. On what day are they going to leave? Why?
4. What is eventually the plan they are going to stick to?
5. Would you personally take so many risks to publish a political book? To what extent can you influence the course of political or historical events? Dev.

Chapter 16

1. What are Wendy's thought while lying on the beach?
2. What does the meeting with the Woods' aquaintance show to Wendy?
2. What did Woods do with his hair and why?
4. How did Woods exit his house?
5. What sort of flashback did Wendy have about Biko? What does it tell us about her way of thinking? Dev.

Quotes from Biko:
# "The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country. Not so long ago this used to be freely said in parliament, even about the educational system of the black people. It is still said even today, although in a much more sophisticated language. To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.”
("We Blacks", ibid.)

Chapter 17

1. What is the effect of Jason's story on Woods?
2. What does this episode tell the reader about cohabitation between black and white people?
3. What did Wendy become aware of when she spoke with Don?
4. How is Wendy's anxiety expressed? How would you feel at her place? Dev.
5. What did Woods realize when he saw the way the policemen arrested black people in the township?
6. How de we know "time" is important in the course of the chapter?