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In this novel, a character differentiates her husband from a house servant by respectively referring to them as “My Jim” and “Our Jim.” A character in this novel introduces himself to an assistant in a mismatched suit that he mistakes for a chief. Two characters in this novel briefly attend a party featuring a man who plays records out of a red box. (-5[1])During that gumba-gumba, a shotgun earlier (10[1])used to hunt two warthogs is stolen by Daniel to join rebel fighters. This novel ends (10[1])with the protagonist running towards a helicopter (10[1])the day after accusing her former servant of pretending to be (10[1])a “big man” by keeping the keys to a yellow bakkie truck. For 10 (10[1])points, the title character helps Bam and Maureen Smales escape a violent apartheid-ending uprising in what novel by Nadine Gordimer? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: July’s People
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