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Donald Woods, editor of the Daily Dispatch, decided
1. to publish one of Ken's pictures of the police raid on Crossroads.
2. not to publish Ken's pictures because it was illegal.
3. to use the story of the pardon for Richard Nixon by President Ford as the main story.
Which statement is FALSE? Donald Woods
1. accepted the laws that forced black and whites to live in separate areas.
2. didn't agree with police brutality.
3. believed that black people should be allowed to vote.
Mamphela went to the Daily Dispatch
1. to complain about the racist articles the newspaper published.
2. to see the person who had written the editiorial on Biko.
3. to apply for a job as a reporter.
Biko didn't meet Woods in the church because
1. he didn't want to be seen talking to a white man.
2. he was afraid of the security police.
3. he could only be with one person at a time.
After his visit to the clinic at Zanempilo,
1. Biko convinced Woods that Black Conciousness was right.
2. Biko persuaded Woods to visit a black township.
3. Woods was not impressed by Biko's ideas.
Which statement is NOT true?
1. Woods had never been to a township before.
2. Woods' father had a shop in a township.
3. Woods had never had a meal with a black family before.
Woods employed Tenjy and Mapetla in the newspaper
1. to cover black news - weddings, music, sport, crime.
2. so that they could write about Black Consciousness.
3. to challenge the Board.
There were no black sportsmen in national teams because
1. black people weren't good at sport.
2. there were laws that prevented blacks from moving freely about the country.
3. black people used the stadiums for illegal meetings rather than for sport.
Biko
1. agreed with the call for violence.
2. thought black people should face white people believing they were equal.
3. believed white children should learn about black heroes and back history at school.
Captain de Wet told the detectives not to beat Biko because
1. he didn't want Biko to appear in court with cuts and bruises.
2. Biko had told him what he wanted to know.
3. he only wanted to threaten Biko.
The Board felt Woods was putting the newspaper in a dangerous position as
1. he had employed two black reporters.
2. he had printed Biko's words at the trial.
3. he was developing a friendship with a black leader who was banned.
The people who smashed everything in the church were seen by
1. a young boy.
2. Father Kani.
3. an elderly man.
The Afrikaner argument was that
1. blacks should have been forced to work for whites.
2. blacks went to the Afrikaners to ask for work.
3. Afrikaners had succeeded because blacks worked for them.
If Donald Woods refuses to tell the police the name of the witness,
1. he could be sent to prison.
2. he might be banned.
3. he could lose his job.
When the police arrived in the middle of the night to search Biko's house for dangerous documents,
1. Ntsiki hid Biko's papers in Samora's nappy.
2. Biko hid the papers under Nkosinathi's bed.
3. they couldn't find anything so they took Biko away.
Woods wasn't sent to prison because
1. he decided to name the witness.
2. he was defended by a first-class lawyer.
3. he was a friend of Kruger, the Minister of Police.
Which statement is TRUE ?
1. The police arrested Evalina, Woods' servant.
2. The police arrested and killed Mapetla.
3. Matpetla hanged himself in prison.
After the police took Mapetla away, Biko went to Woods' house in the middle of the night
1. to find out about Mapetla.
2. to give Woods an article he had written about the arrest.
3. to ask Woods to print the pictures of Mapetla's arrest.
The police arrested Biko because
1. the driver in Biko's car didn't stop at the road-block.
2. he was outside his banning area.
3. they found Black Conciousness posters in the boot.
The doctor who examined Biko thought
1. he was pretending to be unconscious.
2. he should be taken to the hospital in Pretoria.
3. it would take him weeks before he could walk and talk again.

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