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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, p. 35-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator return to her house after her trip in town?
(a) Late morning.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Early morning.
(d) Midnight.

2. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the little girls?
(a) Tells them to go away.
(b) Yells at them.
(c) Wets them with a hose.
(d) Plays with them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?

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

4. What does the narrator say to the housekeeper that one day will hurt everybody?

5. What does the narrator bring the person that lives near her house the morning after his return?

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