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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, p. 56-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 marry her.
(c) To be her driver.
(d) To cook for her.

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

3. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?
(a) South Central.
(b) Johannesburg.
(c) Kroncity.
(d) The Cape.

4. What does Mr. Vercueil seem to be sleeping off?
(a) The effects of his medication.
(b) A bad meal.
(c) The flu.
(d) The effects of liquor or drugs.

5. Why does Vercueil say the narrator should tell her daughter about her cancer?
(a) Because if her daughter finds out later she would never forgive the narrator.
(b) Because she needs all the support she can get.
(c) Because her daughter is married to an oncologist.
(d) Because she could have a visa for the U.S.A.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?

3. What does the narrator say about the media?

4. How long was the housekeeper absent?

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

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