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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. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he wants to join the army.
(b) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.
(c) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.
(d) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.

2. How long was the housekeeper absent?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 months.

3. What does Vercueil say caused the shouting man's condition?
(a) Alzheimer's disease.
(b) Alcohol withdrawal.
(c) End stage cancer.
(d) Drug withdrawal.

4. Where is the person the narrator finds at the start of Part One?
(a) Near her neighbor's house
(b) Near her garage.
(c) Near her pool.
(d) Near the grocery store.

5. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?
(a) It is after 5 p.m.
(b) It is vacation time.
(c) The bus broke down.
(d) The school is closed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does access to money allow Mr. Vercueil to do?

3. What does the narrator give to the person that lives near her house the first evening?

4. What is the name of the homeless man?

5. What does the narrator spend the day doing according to page 15?

(see the answer key)

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