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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 Rosa doing in the public square?
(a) Kissing a young man.
(b) Playing with two boys.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Eating her lunch.

2. Whose car does Conrad drive?
(a) His own.
(b) Cathy Burger's.
(c) Lionel Burger's.
(d) Rosa's.

3. With what were the two hotel rooms where Rosa stayed filled?
(a) Books.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Souvenirs.
(d) Bed linens.

4. How long does Lionel Burger speak when he gets his chance in court?
(a) One hour and ten minutes.
(b) One hour and forty seven minutes.
(c) Two hours fifteen minutes.
(d) Thirty eight minutes.

5. Who is Rosa Burger going to visit on the day that she first goes to the prison?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her teacher.
(d) Her brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rosa and Greer see on the side of the road on their way home from Fats' that they do not stop for?

2. What does Rosa do on the day of the anniversary of her father's death?

3. How do the Sunday dinners at the Burgers' house come about?

4. What do the Nel relatives own, besides the hotel?

5. Why do Rosa and Tony stay at her Aunt Velma's hotel when they are young?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is life like at the Nel's hotel for Rosa?

2. What information does Rosa give the journalist concerning her parents?

3. In the first section of the novel pages 9-39, many points of view are used. Whose points of view is the story told from?

4. What is the relationship between Conrad and Rosa from the time they met to the end of the first section of the book?

5. What happened in the morning in the city that Marisa wants to know more about ,and what does Greer tell her about it?

6. What cloak and dagger stuff has Rosa been involved in in the past, and what were the results?

7. What does Rosa feel shortly before she leaves Fats' house?

8. How does Conrad see Rosa's childhood and where does he believe it will lead her?

9. At the beginning of the novel, how is Rosa's age crucial to the intensity of the story?

10. How is Rosa's life different than her cousin who carries her name?

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