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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, p. 15-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator write about?
(a) The space race.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) The Afghan war.
(d) The Berlin wall.

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

3. What type of document introduces the "Age of Iron"?
(a) A book.
(b) A short journal.
(c) A long letter.
(d) A poem.

4. Why does the narrator think the person that lives near her house will return?
(a) He left his dog.
(b) He dug himself a hole.
(c) He left his belongings.
(d) He forgot his car.

5. What does the narrator give to the person that lives near her house the first evening?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does the man take from the narrator?

2. Where is the person the narrator finds at the start of Part One?

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

4. What does the narrator ask the man to do after seeing what he purchased?

5. Who is the narrator of the book?

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