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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, p. 87-115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does the narrator offer the man she went to town with?
(a) Cleaning the gutters.
(b) Repairing the second floor lights.
(c) Cleaning the back yard.
(d) Fixing a drainage problem.

2. What does the narrator feel about the person she is addressing in this book?
(a) She hates her.
(b) She dislikes her habits.
(c) She misses her.
(d) She makes her sick.

3. What does Mr. Vercueil seem to be sleeping off?
(a) The effects of his medication.
(b) The flu.
(c) The effects of liquor or drugs.
(d) A bad meal.

4. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?
(a) The reality of the Vichy regime.
(b) The reality of South African inequalities.
(c) The reality of life in an Empire.
(d) The reality of the Berlin wall.

5. What does the narrator see the police do?
(a) Arrest Bheki.
(b) Run over a possum.
(c) Hit Bheki's bike with their door.
(d) Shoot a black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?

2. Why does the narrator think the person that lives near her house will return?

3. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?

4. What is the name of the narrator's housekeeper?

5. What does Florence learn late at night in Part Three?

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