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Brief Explanations

These are comprehension questions based on Bessie Head's The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses. Answers are derived directly from key details and character/plot elements of the story:

  1. The warder Hannetjie is introduced as harsh, unyielding, and cruel at the story's start.
  2. Brille and the men in Span One are imprisoned for political activism against the apartheid state.
  3. "Brille" is Afrikaans for "glasses", which matches his defining feature.
  4. Brille first tells Hannetjie he won't call him "Baas" (master) because he is 20 years older and refuses to address a younger man by that title.
  5. Brille's family is described as large, with many children, and chaotic in his memories.
  6. When interrupted, Brille was in the middle of telling his children to cooperate to make life easier, a lesson shaped by his prison experience.

Answer:

  1. A. Hard, cold, cruel
  2. G. They are political prisoners.
  3. C. a person who wears glasses
  4. G. He is twenty years older than the warder.
  5. D. A large and chaotic one
  6. H. "Cooperate, then life will run smoothly"