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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 prevents the narrator from going shopping in Part One?
(a) Pain.
(b) The rain.
(c) Her can does not run.
(d) Her farorite soap opera has a marathon.

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

3. What does the narrator ask the man to do after seeing what he purchased?
(a) To keep the unspent money.
(b) To give the unspent money to a charity.
(c) To return the unspent money to her.
(d) To return what he purchased.

4. What does the narrator ask her male employee to do over tea and biscuits?
(a) To mail papers to her daughter after she dies.
(b) To cook for her.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To be her driver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator cry when arriving in town?

2. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?

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

4. How long does the man work before being paid by the narrator?

5. What does the narrator say about charity not being appreciated?

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