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

2. How does the narrator speak to the person that lives near her house?
(a) With respect.
(b) Softly.
(c) Loudly.
(d) In a condescending manner.

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

4. What does the narrator tell the person that calls her?
(a) That the vagrant is in fact her employee.
(b) That the dog is hers.
(c) That the pool house heats the pool.
(d) That the homeless man owns the dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the person that lives near her house?

2. When does the person the narrator met at the start of Part One return?

3. What is the call the narrator receives while playing music about?

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

5. When was the narrator's house burglarized?

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