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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, p. 147-176.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bheki sleep?
(a) The guest bedroom.
(b) The pool house.
(c) The narrator's car.
(d) The backyard shed.

2. What does the narrator say to the housekeeper that one day will hurt everybody?
(a) Love.
(b) Discomfort.
(c) Hate.
(d) Altruism.

3. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?
(a) The school is closed.
(b) It is after 5 p.m.
(c) The bus broke down.
(d) It is vacation time.

4. Who tries to intervene when Mr. Vercueil is being beaten?
(a) The police.
(b) Concerned neighbors.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Florence.

5. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?
(a) The reality of South African inequalities.
(b) The reality of the Vichy regime.
(c) The reality of the Berlin wall.
(d) The reality of life in an Empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What road does the narrator want to drive her car down?

2. What does Mr. Vercueil say he bought?

3. When does the person the narrator met at the start of Part One return?

4. How does Mr. Vercueil appear to be in Part Three "p.115-147"?

5. What is the boy's name?

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