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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator give to the person that lives near her house the first evening?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

3. What is the man's reaction to the narrator's comment about giving money for nothing?
(a) He calls her names.
(b) He slaps her.
(c) He nods his head.
(d) He laughs.

4. What does Florence learn thanks to a phone call a few hours after the crash?
(a) Bheki's friend cannot be found in any hospital.
(b) That her husband was fired.
(c) That the Soweto township was in full revolt.
(d) That her application at the university was turned down.

5. Why does Vercueil say the narrator should tell her daughter about her cancer?
(a) Because her daughter is married to an oncologist.
(b) Because if her daughter finds out later she would never forgive the narrator.
(c) Because she could have a visa for the U.S.A.
(d) Because she needs all the support she can get.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?

4. What does the narrator write about?

5. Where does the housekeeper live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the narrator three years ago?

2. What does the narrator ask the homeless man to do upon her death?

3. What did the narrator do to ease her pain at the end of Part One, p. 3-15?

4. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

5. What did Mr. Vercueil do with more access to money?

6. What does the narrator not understand about the townships?

7. What does the narrator say about the boy and her teaching?

8. Who returns with her two young daughters and teenage son in Part Two, pgs. 35-56?

9. What does the narrator do when her car won't start according to Part One, pg. 15-33?

10. What is the aged woman diagnosed with at the start of Part One, pg. 3-15?

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