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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 is the ethnicity of the narrator?
(a) Japanese.
(b) White.
(c) Indian.
(d) Black.

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

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

4. What does the narrator say to the person she finds?
(a) That she will call the police.
(b) That he cannot stay.
(c) That she will house him for work.
(d) That she will find him work.

5. What job does the narrator offer the man she went to town with?
(a) Cleaning the gutters.
(b) Repairing the second floor lights.
(c) Cleaning the back yard.
(d) Fixing a drainage problem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what time period is the "Age of Iron" set?

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

4. Why does the narrator refuse to give the man money for nothing?

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

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