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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, p. 147-176.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florence do after the crash?
(a) Call the hospital where Bheki's friend was sent to.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Call the parents of Bheki's friend.
(d) Call the local chapter of the black panthers.

2. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?
(a) The graffiti left on her sofa.
(b) The vandalism.
(c) The burglars where white.
(d) Stealing her piano.

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

4. What did the narrator's daughter tell her as she was leaving South Africa.
(a) That she never want to see her again.
(b) That she would send her money to bring her to the U.S.
(c) That she would never return.
(d) That she would return every year.

5. What does the narrator think about after the person she found leaves the house?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) The homeless of Cape Town.
(d) The police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who harasses and beats Mr. Vercueil one day?

2. What does the narrator spend the day doing according to page 15?

3. What does the narrator ask Florence about?

4. Who does the narrator find in her kitchen when she comes down to quiet Vercueil's dog?

5. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?

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