Life and Times of Michael K Quizzes

Life and Times of Michael K Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed May 19, 2020

1 Where is the novel set?

South Africa

Nigeria

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Namibia
2 What is the larger social context of the novel?

WWII

WWI

Imperialism

Apartheid
3 What is the fictive social context?

A disease

A civil war

A natural disaster

A war with a neighboring country
4 The narrators are a third-person narrator following K and a first-person narrator, _____.

the Nurse

the Police Officer

the Guard

the Medical Officer
5 What facial feature marks K?

A bad eye

Missing teeth

A harelip

Scarring
6 K spends most of his childhood

in a state-run institution

at a boarding school

with his mother

with extended family
7 Anna works as a

janitor

domestic servant

nurse

cook
8 K's job as an adult is

a driver

a gardener

a cook

a janitor
9 K thinks his purpose in life is

to become a doctor

to escape Sea Point

to take care of his mother

to be a gardener
10 All of the following describe K and Anna's life in Sea Point except

it is increasingly unstable

the weather is very rainy and damp

the Buhrmanns are cruel to them

the room they stay in is small and cramped
11 How do K and Anna have to travel when they decide to leave?

The train

A convoy

A wagon

Walking and the barrow
12 Why are K and his mother turned back on their first attempt?

They are deemed criminals

They are the wrong race

They have no money

They have no permits
13 What happens to Anna?

She takes her own life

She abandons K

She falls ill and dies

She is injured and dies
14 K leaves the hospital with all the following except

the cart

new clothes

a permit

his mother's ashes
15 Who steals K's money?

A soldier

A child

A police officer

A man on the road
16 The first time K is captured, he ends up in

a medical camp

prison

a rehabiltation camp

a forced labor gang
17 What kind of work does K do?

Building barracks

Clearing rocks from railway tracks

Mending fences

Working in the mines
18 Who are the Visagies?

Politicians in Sea Point

People K meets on the road

Landowners in Prince Albert

Fellow workers in the labor gang
19 What is unknown about K?

His father's identity

His race

His intelligence

All of these
20 What animal does K capture and eat?

Pig

Cow

Goat

Dog
21 What does K find pleasure in while at the farm?

Reading

Cultivating

Hunting

Running
22 All of the following are true about the boy who shows up at the farm except

He does not believe K works for the family

He wants K to act as a servant for him

He is a deserter

He is the grandson of the Visagies
23 Where does K live after he leaves the farmhouse?

A camp

Down by the dam

A hideout he constructs

Caves in the mountains
24 In the mountains, all the following occur except

K grows very ill

K only tries to survive

K regrets having left the farm

K is extremely idle
25 Where is K taken after he leaves the hospital?

Vrouevereniging

Kenilworth

Sea Point

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