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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. Which of the following characters had a failed marriage that is revealed in Chapter 3?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Frank.
(c) Laurence.
(d) Maria.

2. What causes Frank to be dismayed when he asks Mama about a room?
(a) She refuses to answer him.
(b) She charges him more than she would charge others.
(c) She calls him her friend.
(d) She will not rent to Laurence.

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

4. Where does Frank tell Zanele Laurence would have learned more about life?
(a) Doing community service.
(b) Working in the city hospital.
(c) At an orphanage.
(d) In the trenches.

5. What does Zanele tell Frank about his relationship with Laurence?
(a) Frank is the only person Laurence has ever shared a room with.
(b) He is the first friend Laurence ever had.
(c) Laurence does not trust Frank.
(d) Laurence respects Frank more than he does Zanele.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Laurence seem on his first morning when he is to meet Dr. Negema?

2. What has Frank started doing again with his nights?

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

4. How did Laurence meet his girlfriend?

5. What question does Laurence continually avoid?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is shared about Frank's marriage and his current love life?

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

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

4. What is Frank's opinion about the steps Laurence is taking to protect the items at the hospital from looting and how does Laurence respond?

5. What information about herself does Zanele share with Frank?

6. How did Frank come to become a doctor?

7. How is Frank physically and emotionally at the end of Chapter 1?

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

9. How did Frank respond to the fact that Laurence rearranged the furniture in their room without asking him?

10. What did Laurence insist was the real reason that Frank became a doctor?

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