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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who picks the narrator up after she wakes up?
(a) Florence.
(b) The police.
(c) Vercueil.
(d) Thabane.

2. What does the narrator think is insane?
(a) The police powers.
(b) The way young people can find guns.
(c) The South African education system.
(d) The form of comradeship the boys have.

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

4. What was Mr. Thabane's profession?
(a) He was a shoe seller.
(b) He was a political leader.
(c) He was a dock worker.
(d) He was a teacher.

5. What does the narrator try to do?
(a) Call Mr. Thabane.
(b) Call Mr. Vercueil.
(c) Call Florence.
(d) Call the police.

6. What does Mr. Vercueil do the morning of Part Three "p.115-147"?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Write a letter.
(c) Follow the narrator around.
(d) Play with his dog.

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

8. What does Vercueil propose to the narrator?
(a) To go to the township.
(b) To go for a drive.
(c) To go shopping.
(d) To go to the U.S.A.

9. What does the narrator say about John?
(a) He has suicide thoughts.
(b) She thinks he has a gun.
(c) He wants to kill police officers.
(d) She thinks people are after him.

10. What is the name of Florence's cousin?
(a) Mr. Thabane.
(b) Mr. Bwena.
(c) Mr. Tima.
(d) Mr. Amassa.

11. What does the young man the narrator and her group meet want?
(a) Money.
(b) To use the narrator's car.
(c) To use the narrator's gun.
(d) Help finding his mother.

12. What is the narrator impressed about?
(a) Mr. Thabane's manhood.
(b) Mr. Thabane's attire.
(c) Mr. Thabane's sense of spectacle.
(d) Mr. Thabane's speech.

13. What does the narrator notice is removed?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A portion of the baseboard.
(c) A chair.
(d) The wall.

14. What does the narrator say she would want to know when Vercueil asks about the dream?
(a) She would like to know about the dog.
(b) She would like to know more about Vercueil.
(c) She would like to know about Florence.
(d) She would like to know how to burn her car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator hope her daughter will do after the letters stop?

2. What do the officers prevent the narrator from doing?

3. What does the narrator compare aging to?

4. What does the police tell the narrator?

5. What does the narrator see inside the building they go to?

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