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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosa do after she hangs up the phone with Bassie?

2. What advice does Katya give Gaby about getting older?

3. How does Didier attempt to aid Rosa with her cut toe?

4. What does Bernard say to Rosa about the occurrence with Bassie?

5. What do Katya and Rosa go to hear one evening that is described as a ravishing pitch hit again and again?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rosa go to London? What are Bernard's plans concerning London, and what delays him?

2. Who does Fats go to visit and what does he express as his need?

3. What is the political topic of conversation at Donna's party?

4. What happens with the woman in the street that Rosa finds and how does it affect her?

5. What are Rosa's thoughts concerning her future with Bernard?

6. What is the reason for Flora's party? What specifically do the women discuss?

7. Why might Rosa have chosen a married man as her lover and not the bricklayer she had met?

8. What specifically transpires in the first meeting between Brandt and Rosa?

9. What does Bernard say that the trip to Corsica is all about and what does it actually turn out to be?

10. Who in Rosa's family is arrested and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What occurs at the massacre of June 16, 1976, and how is this event a turning point in the fight is South Africa against Apartheid? What fundamental changes stem from the massacre?

Essay Topic 2

What is the fundamental difference between Clare and Rosa?

Essay Topic 3

Rosa says that it is difficult to live in a country that still has heroes. What does she mean by that, and how does it affect her decision to return home?

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