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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. How does Zanele feel while she is eating dinner at Mama's?
(a) She is relaxed.
(b) She is surprised.
(c) She is uncomfortable.
(d) She is unsure.

2. Why do the people hate the hospital where Frank and Laurence work?
(a) It lacks up-to-date technology.
(b) Because the doctors do not listen to them.
(c) It is dirty.
(d) The puppet dictator had lived there.

3. Which of the following terms best describes how Frank feels at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Determined.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Discomfort.
(d) Resigned.

4. What question does Laurence continually avoid?
(a) Why did he come to the hospital?
(b) What does he hope to learn at the hospital?
(c) Why did he become a doctor?
(d) When will he be leaving the hospital?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the best description of breakfast?

2. How does the evening between Zanele and Frank end?

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

4. What causes the fighting to stop?

5. Where does Frank tell Zanele Laurence would have learned more about life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens on Laurence's first morning and how is he feeling?

2. How did Frank come to be stuck at the hospital?

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

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

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

6. How does Frank feel about Zanele's idealism and how does this relate to how he feels about Laurence?

7. What information about Laurence does Zanele correct while she is talking to Frank?

8. How did Frank come to become a doctor?

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

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

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