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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A video cassette.
(c) A political pamphlet.
(d) A gun.

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

3. What does the narrator compare aging to?
(a) A drive with two dogs.
(b) Riding a bicycle downhill.
(c) A roller coaster ride.
(d) A long drive with young children.

4. Where is John sitting on Page 147?
(a) On the kitchen floor.
(b) On the front porch.
(c) In the narrator's study.
(d) On Florence's bed.

5. What prevents the narrator from going shopping in Part One?
(a) Pain.
(b) Her farorite soap opera has a marathon.
(c) The rain.
(d) Her can does not run.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens late at night in Part Three?

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

4. Who is with the narrator as she drives to the township?

5. What does the narrator tell the inspector investigating the shooting?

(see the answer key)

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