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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator see being taken in an ambulance?
(a) A negotiator's body.
(b) A police officer.
(c) John's body.
(d) Mr. Vercueil's body.

2. What prevents the narrator from going out in the days following her car drive?
(a) Her car is broken.
(b) The weather.
(c) The police is staking out the house.
(d) A cold.

3. What does the narrator want to do after looking at her watch?
(a) Go home.
(b) Go for a swim.
(c) Go drink.
(d) Go dance.

4. Who gives the narrator little help after the narrator tries to take her car home?
(a) The military.
(b) The police.
(c) The township inhabitants.
(d) The white township guards.

5. What does the police tell the narrator?
(a) That she is not allowed to pass.
(b) That she must pay a fee to enter.
(c) That she must submit to a body scanner.
(d) That she can only continue on foot.

6. Who does the narrator and her group meet on the way back to the car?
(a) Florence's husband.
(b) A friend of Bheki.
(c) Bheki.
(d) Florence's sister.

7. What does the narrator tell the young boy to do?
(a) To stay the night.
(b) To turn himself in.
(c) To leave by the back door.
(d) To go back to school.

8. What does the narrator say to the young man her and her group meet as she rejects his request?
(a) That she will help the insurrection.
(b) That she wants to go home.
(c) That she wants to help.
(d) That she wants to burn her car.

9. What does the narrator refuse to do?
(a) Leave the dog alone.
(b) Leave her house.
(c) Allow the police to enter.
(d) Allow an officer to pat her down.

10. Where are the police officers the narrator talks with?
(a) Outside her yard.
(b) Near her pool.
(c) At the police station.
(d) Outside her kitchen.

11. Who is with the narrator as she drives to the township?
(a) Her lawyer.
(b) Florence and her two daughters.
(c) The dog.
(d) Vercueil.

12. What did the narrator's daughter tell her as she was leaving South Africa.
(a) That she would return every year.
(b) That she would never return.
(c) That she would send her money to bring her to the U.S.
(d) That she never want to see her again.

13. How was Florence dressed in the narrator's dream?
(a) Like a police officer.
(b) Like a Greek goddess.
(c) Like a white politician.
(d) Like lady liberty.

14. What happens late at night in Part Three?
(a) Florence leaves for Zimbabwe.
(b) Florence receives a phone call.
(c) Florence is wounded in a shootout.
(d) Florence is arrested.

15. What happened on Government Avenue in the narrator's dream in Part four?
(a) She burns down a Greek temple.
(b) She burns down her house.
(c) She burns down the Parliament.
(d) She meets with her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is John sitting on Page 147?

2. What did the narrator tell her daughter during their last conversation?

3. How does Mr. Vercueil appear to be in Part Three "p.115-147"?

4. What does the narrator tell Mr. Vercueil?

5. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?

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