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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 confuses Laurence about the hospital office?
(a) The small nature of surroundings.
(b) The choice of colors.
(c) The lack of medical equipment.
(d) Its unkempt office.

2. Who is the Brigadier?
(a) The head of the miltary.
(b) The new militia leader who is trying to overthrow the government.
(c) The former, now deposed leader.
(d) The biggest drug lord in the country.

3. What question did the Commandant ask Frank about the prisoner?
(a) Was he already dead?
(b) How much more could he take?
(c) Should he be taken to a hospital?
(d) How could they make him confess?

4. When Frank stops at Mama's to ask about a room, what does he see there?
(a) Mama passing an envelope of money to a strange man.
(b) Maria talking to Mama and a strange man.
(c) Military-looking men in civilian attire.
(d) Zanele kissing and hugging another man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank describe his relationship with Maria?

2. What does Laurence wear that others do not?

3. Why does Frank still wear his wedding ring?

4. What happened to Frank after he told the Commandant that the prisoner would not die yet?

5. What does Frank admit to Maria about Laurence?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ngema respond to Laurence and how does this affect Laurence?

2. What does Frank understand about the reason that Ngema says it is inappropriate for Frank to share rooms with Tehogo?

3. What does Frank offer to do so that Laurence and Zanele can be alone together and how does Laurence respond?

4. What happens when Frank asks Maria to come back to his room with him?

5. Why does Laurence say was the reason he came to the hospital?

6. What happened to Frank's wife, Karen?

7. What happens when Frank goes to visit Maria and asks her to tell him more about her life?

8. How does Frank feel when he learns more details about the relationship between Mama and Frank?

9. Who is the Brigadier and and what are some of the rumors about him?

10. What is one thing Laurence does to help to improve the appearance of the grounds of the hospital?

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