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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, p. 35-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?
(a) Create a bed and breakfast.
(b) Rent to recently released prisoners.
(c) Rent to students.
(d) Take a second mortgage.

3. What does the narrator tell the person that lives near her house?
(a) To come inside to sleep.
(b) To leave the following morning.
(c) Not to light any fires.
(d) Not to urinate in the yard.

4. Who are the only two people the narrator say she would speak to on the phone?
(a) Her daughter and Bach.
(b) Bach and Beethoven.
(c) Her daughter and Tchaikovsky.
(d) Her sister and her brother.

5. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?

2. Who calls the narrator as she plays music?

3. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?

4. What is the name of the homeless man?

5. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?

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