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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. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Drive white people out of the township.
(b) Burn a police station.
(c) Fight with white students.
(d) Burn their own school.

2. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?
(a) He stops drinking.
(b) He goes to the hospital.
(c) He sleeps.
(d) He leaves.

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 give the man following his reaction to her comment regarding giving money for nothing?
(a) Her wallet.
(b) Her purse.
(c) He credit card.
(d) Her jewelry.

5. Who harasses and beats Mr. Vercueil one day?
(a) Bheki and two other white boys.
(b) Florence.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Bheki and another boy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the narrator of the book?

3. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?

4. Who are the only two people the narrator say she would speak to on the phone?

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

(see the answer key)

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