30B
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
QUESTION PACK
from Kaffir Boy
By Mark Mathabane
1. What is the exposition of the story?
2. Describe the conversation between the boy and his grandmother. Why do you think it
was included?
3. How does the boy describe the white school children?
4. Where were the children? What was the contrast between the white school and the
boy’s school?
5. What judgement can you make about the society in which the boy lives? Proof?
6. Who was Mrs.Smith? What is the boy’s initial impression of her?
7. What is pidgin English? A pickaninny?
8. What is the Granny’s job? What is her feeling about it?
10. What is the point in including Clyde in the story? What is his grandmother’s
reaction to his comment about not playing with Kaffirs?
11. What is Clyde’s comment/theory on black people’s intelligence? How does it serve
as motivation for the boy?
12. Who was Dr.Verwoerd? What was his theory on education?
Vocabulary
Immaculate
cease
Bantu
Kaffir