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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. In whose olive grove do Rosa and Katya dine one afternoon?

2. What does Rosa believe is the reason that Katya cheated on Lionel with Dick?

3. What does Georges say that Rosa could make a living at in France?

4. According to the architect at Donna's party, he thinks that the Leftist view of life is what?

5. What does Rosa state is her underlying reason for going to stay with Katya?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is finding Bassie the complete opposite of what Rosa would have imagined?

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

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

4. Where does Rosa's passbook allow her to go, and not go? Why is she allowed in certain places and not others?

5. What is the party for that Georges plans and what does Gaby do for Rosa for the party? How does Pierre react?

6. In Pages 262-290, how does Rosa become part of France?

7. Why is Rosa detained and what becomes of her?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has fighting for a cause been too costly for Doctor Lionel Burger and his family?

Essay Topic 2

What is Bernard's role in the novel? Why does Gordimer create his character? What contrasts is the reader made to see through him?

Essay Topic 3

If Rosa is the protagonist of the story. Who are the antagonists? Name three antagonists and explain why they are antagonists and how they affect Rosa.

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