Q 01/05

What did the young Athol Fugard do with the first book he wrote while working aboard a steamship?

A) Posted it to his mother

B) Sold it to a shipmate

C) Threw it into the sea

D) Burned it in the galley

Answer · why

C) Threw it into the sea

He threw it into the sea after deciding it was terrible. Fugard had hitchhiked up Africa and signed on as a merchant sailor, two years he later turned...

Q 02/05

In the film of Athol Fugard's Tsotsi, what does the hero find on the back seat of a stolen car?

A) A baby

B) A puppy

C) A handgun

D) A suitcase

Answer · why

A) A baby

A baby is in the car he takes at gunpoint, and caring for the child slowly changes him. Two alternative endings were shot for the film, and both survi...

Q 03/05

In "Master Harold"...and the Boys, which toy did Sam once build from scrap to cheer up young Hally?

A) A go-kart

B) A catapult

C) A toy boat

D) A kite

Answer · why

D) A kite

A kite made of junk was Sam's gift after the two of them had to carry the boy's drunk father home. Sam could not stay to watch it fly: the park bench ...

Q 04/05

John Kani, co-creator of Athol Fugard's Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, later played King T'Chaka in which Marvel film?

A) Doctor Strange

B) Black Panther

C) Captain Marvel

D) Thor: Ragnarok

Answer · why

B) Black Panther

Black Panther's Wakandans speak Xhosa because of Kani, who taught his first language to Chadwick Boseman, his on-screen son. Kani's real son Atandwa p...

Q 05/05

What did South Africa's government take from Athol Fugard after the BBC broadcast his Blood Knot in 1967?

A) His passport

B) His typewriter

C) His citizenship

D) His theatre licence

Answer · why

A) His passport

His passport was withdrawn by B. J. Vorster's government and restored only in 1971, after an international campaign on his behalf.