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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the only two people the narrator say she would speak to on the phone?
(a) Her daughter and Tchaikovsky.
(b) Her sister and her brother.
(c) Bach and Beethoven.
(d) Her daughter and Bach.

2. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Fight with white students.
(b) Burn a police station.
(c) Burn their own school.
(d) Drive white people out of the township.

3. Why does Florence bring Bheki back to the house?
(a) She does not want to be involved with the police.
(b) She is sought by police.
(c) Her son could be fined.
(d) She does not have insurance.

4. What does Florence do with Bheki after the crash?
(a) Buy him a new bike.
(b) Refuses to have an ambulance take care of him.
(c) Sews his wounds herself.
(d) Talks Bheki out of pressing charges.

5. What is the name of the narrator's housekeeper?
(a) Florence.
(b) Rachelle.
(c) Love.
(d) Sophie.

6. How does the narrator speak to the person that lives near her house?
(a) Softly.
(b) In a condescending manner.
(c) With respect.
(d) Loudly.

7. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?
(a) Indian.
(b) Black.
(c) Japanese.
(d) White.

8. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?
(a) To leave the house for a week.
(b) To send her daughters away.
(c) To send Bheki away.
(d) To keep the children quiet the next morning.

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

10. What does the narrator tell the person that lives near her house?
(a) Not to light any fires.
(b) Not to urinate in the yard.
(c) To come inside to sleep.
(d) To leave the following morning.

11. Where does the narrator live?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) U.S.A.
(d) South Africa.

12. What does the narrator think of doing with her cats after her death?
(a) Give them to the homeless man.
(b) Give them to a hospital.
(c) Give them to her sister.
(d) Have them put down.

13. How does the narrator sign the letter she writes to her housekeeper?
(a) A.H.
(b) J.K.
(c) P.N.
(d) E.C.

14. What do Bheki and his friend crash into?
(a) A wall.
(b) A plumber's car.
(c) A police car.
(d) A bay window.

15. What injury does Bheki's friend have following the crash?
(a) Cuts on his legs.
(b) Broken arm.
(c) Head wound.
(d) Bruises on his arms and legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about after the person she found leaves the house?

2. When does the narrator return to her house after her trip in town?

3. Who calls the narrator as she plays music?

4. What job does the narrator offer the man she went to town with?

5. What does the narrator give to the person that lives near her house the first evening?

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