Born a Crime Chapter 15 Handout G9

Questions
1. What was the exchange rate between rand and dollar at the time?
2. What advice did Bongani give to Trevor to make a lot of money?
3. Why did Trevor feel that having money was the most liberating thing in the
world?
4. What does McDonald’s mean to Trevor? Why was it important?
5. What role did Andrew play in Trevor’s life? How does that influence the way
Trevor think of the relationship between the privileged and the dispossessed?
6. Why did Hitler get his name as Hitler? What is the meaning of it?
7. How many people were killed in Holocaust?
8. Why did the teacher run out behind Trevor at the event?
9. Check the meaning of following vocabulary: geek, pirate, lore, salvage,
mesmerize
10. What do you know about Hitler in history? In this chapter, what are the facts
about Hitlers that are taught at school? How do you feel about what he had done
in history?

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1. 1 rand=0.1 dollar
2. The first advice: Put the best tracks of different albums onto one CD, because
people only want to hear the songs they like. The second advice: make the tracks fade
into one another so the music moves from track one to track two without a break and
the beat carries on.
3. Having money gives you choices. The richer you are, the more choices you have.
That’s the freedom of money.
4. McDonald’s tasted like America. It is a symbol of freedom. The food in
Mcdonald’s looks amazing and make people crave it.
5. Without Andrew, he would never have mastered the world of music piracy and
lived a life of endless Mcdonald’s. Andrew showed him how important it is to
empower the dispossessed and the disenfranchised in the wake of oppression.
6. Hitler was so powerful and made the Germans win the war. So if you want your kid
to be tough, you name your kid Hitler.
7. Six million people.
8. Hitler had a special dance move that was very sexual and that was something she
found disgusting.
9. geek: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity
pirate: a person who illegally copies music, films, computer programs, etc.,
and sells them
lore: traditional knowledge and stories about a subject
salvage: to save goods from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that
has sunk or been damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood
mesmerize: to have someone's attention completely so that they cannot think of
anything else
10. Hitler is the leader and dictator of the nazy party in Germany. In 939 Hitler
invaded Poland and in 1941 he invaded the Soviet Union and in 1943 he did
something else. I don’t agree with what he did because the policies were inhumane.