Age of Iron | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Part One, p. 3-15

1. What type of document introduces the "Age of Iron"?

A long letter.

2. Who is the narrator of the book?

An aged woman.

3. What disease is the narrator diagnosed with?

Terminal cancer.

4. What does the narrator write about?

Apartheid.

5. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?

White.

6. Where does the narrator live?

South Africa.

7. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?

The reality of South African inequalities.

8. In what time period is the "Age of Iron" set?

Mid 1980's.

9. Who does the narrator find at the start of Part One?

A homeless man.

10. Where is the person the narrator finds at the start of Part One?

Near her garage.

11. What does the narrator say to the person she finds?

That he cannot stay.

12. What does the narrator think about after the...
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