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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Vercueil go into the store?
(a) To buy cigarettes.
(b) To buy food.
(c) To buy whiskey.
(d) To buy brandy.

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

4. Why did Vercueil abandon his career at sea?
(a) His leg was cut.
(b) His spine was crushed.
(c) His head was split open.
(d) His hand was crushed.

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

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

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

8. What road does the narrator want to drive her car down?
(a) South Africa Avenue.
(b) Apartheid Avenue.
(c) Government Avenue.
(d) Parliament Avenue.

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

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

11. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to fix?
(a) Her cable box.
(b) Her pool filter.
(c) Her TV antenna.
(d) Her radio antenna.

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

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

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

15. Who does the narrator try to wake up?
(a) Her lawyer.
(b) The dog.
(c) Mr. Vercueil.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to do to help with the pain?

2. Who does the narrator reach on the phone?

3. What does Mr. Vercueil suggest doing after the narrator looks at her watch?

4. What is the boy's name?

5. What does the narrator refuse to do?

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