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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 does the narrator feel about the person she is addressing in this book?
(a) She dislikes her habits.
(b) She hates her.
(c) She makes her sick.
(d) She misses her.

2. Why does the narrator think the person that lives near her house will return?
(a) He left his belongings.
(b) He left his dog.
(c) He forgot his car.
(d) He dug himself a hole.

3. How does the narrator describe Mr Vercueil's usual temperament?
(a) Happy.
(b) Excited.
(c) Sullen.
(d) On edge.

4. Who does the narrator find at the start of Part One?
(a) A homeless man.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) A homeless woman.
(d) Her sister.

5. What does the narrator ask her male employee to do over tea and biscuits?
(a) To cook for her.
(b) To be her driver.
(c) To mail papers to her daughter after she dies.
(d) To marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?

2. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?

3. Why isn't Bheki in school?

4. Where does the housekeeper's husband work?

5. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator explain when a neighbor who calls on the phone?

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

3. What does the homeless man do when the narrator brings him coffee?

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

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

6. Who does the narrator reveal she is speaking to according to Part One, pg. 3-15?

7. What happens when the narrator leaves to go shopping?

8. Who does the narrator see parked outside of her house?

9. What is unique about the aged woman's views on the apartheid system?

10. Why does the narrator say she cannot give him money for nothing?

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