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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Frank about Zanele?
(a) She does not speak English.
(b) She does not seem to be in love with Laurence.
(c) She is American.
(d) She is unattractive.

2. Which of the following is the best descriptor for the character, Dr. Elf?
(a) Cynical.
(b) Defiant.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Comical.

3. Which of the following seems to be Frank's mantra as Laurence attempts to better the hospital and area?
(a) Do not upset the delicate balance.
(b) Stop before you make someone angry.
(c) Why work when there are no patients.
(d) Why bother, it does not matter.

4. Why does Frank still wear his wedding ring?
(a) He wants others to think he is married.
(b) He still loves his wife.
(c) His divorce is not final yet.
(d) He needs to keep up the lie with Maria.

5. What causes the fighting to stop?
(a) Frank knocks on the door.
(b) Mr. Santanders comes into Frank and Laurence's room.
(c) Mrs. Santanders storms out of the room.
(d) Laurence breaks down the door.

6. How long would it be until the trial clinic would be held?
(a) Tomorrow.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) A year.

7. When was it that Frank pressed Maria to learn her real name?
(a) On his last day off.
(b) On his first day in the town.
(c) As he returned from taking a patient to the real hospital.
(d) When Laurence moved into the room with him.

8. Why did Dr. Ngema think the clinic idea was Frank's not Laurence's?
(a) Because he suggested they start in Maria's village.
(b) Because Laurence wanted to give Frank credit.
(c) Because Dr. Ngema doesn't know the difference between Frank and Laurence.
(d) Because Laurence was trying to help Frank's career.

9. Why was Dr. Waters coming to the hospital?
(a) To complete a year of community service.
(b) To reform the procedures at the hospital.
(c) To make judgments as to the effectiveness of the hospital.
(d) To take over the administration.

10. How did Laurence meet his girlfriend?
(a) He met her at the hospital.
(b) He met her when she was doing famine relief work.
(c) He has known her since they were both children.
(d) He met her while they were both studying to be doctors.

11. What is the setting of the story as it opens?
(a) Hospital.
(b) School.
(c) Government building.
(d) Home.

12. Which character does Frank suggest Laurence room with instead of him?
(a) Waters.
(b) Negema.
(c) Santaders.
(d) Tehogo.

13. How many patients do the doctors visit on rounds?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) .6.
(d) 5.

14. What does Frank call Laurence at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Persuasive.
(c) Idealistic.
(d) Uninformed.

15. What happened as soon as all of the buildings that are part of the hospital went up?
(a) A military coup happened.
(b) A peasant revolt happened.
(c) The government ran out of funds.
(d) The country was invaded by another country.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank describe his relationship with Maria?

2. Why did Laurence want to go to the village?

3. What does Frank find on his own walk after Laurence leaves to find the village?

4. How did the bureaucrats describe the hospital?

5. What does Laurence comment to Frank he wishes he had done previously?

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