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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, p. 147-176.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Florence learn thanks to a phone call a few hours after the crash?
(a) Bheki's friend cannot be found in any hospital.
(b) That her husband was fired.
(c) That the Soweto township was in full revolt.
(d) That her application at the university was turned down.

2. Who does the narrator reach on the phone?
(a) Florence's mother.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Mr. Thabane.
(d) Florence.

3. Where does the housekeeper live?
(a) Gugultu.
(b) Guwata.
(c) Soweto.
(d) Watara.

4. What is Mr. Vercueil doing in the back yard that the housekeeper's daughters watch?
(a) Ride a bicycle.
(b) Work on the lawn mower.
(c) Clean the pool.
(d) Dig a hole.

5. What does the narrator think about after Vercueil left her alone?
(a) Her mistakes in life.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) The dog.
(d) Her death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about John?

2. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?

3. What does the narrator give the man following his reaction to her comment regarding giving money for nothing?

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

5. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the little girls?

(see the answer key)

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