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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 try to do while tipsy?
(a) Throw the bottle out of the car.
(b) Drive.
(c) Kiss Mr. Vercueil.
(d) Go for a swim.

2. What does the John do when he sees the narrator?
(a) He shoots at her.
(b) He hides something under the sheets.
(c) He smiles.
(d) He closes the door.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What is the narrator doing when the boy startles her?
(a) She is cooking.
(b) She is reading.
(c) She is taking her medication.
(d) She is writing.

7. What does the narrator hear as she makes her way to the door?
(a) Voices outside the kitchen doors.
(b) A plane passing above.
(c) Knocks on the door.
(d) Car parking.

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

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

10. Why does Florence's cousin give the narrator a jacket to put over her head?
(a) To hide that she is white.
(b) To hide from those she wronged.
(c) To hide that she is wealthy.
(d) To protect her from the rain.

11. How does Mr. Vercueil appear to be in Part Three "p.115-147"?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Excitable.
(c) Tame.
(d) Drunk.

12. Who is the narrator's physician?
(a) Dr. Swatt.
(b) Dr. Syfret.
(c) Dr. Cobb.
(d) Dr. Hoom.

13. What does the narrator tell the inspector investigating the shooting?
(a) That the pistol was hers.
(b) That she didn't remember anything.
(c) That the pistol was her maid's.
(d) That she never saw the pistol before.

14. How long does it take for the pharmacy to deliver the narrator's new medication?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 4 hours.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator compare aging to?

3. What excuse does the narrator give to the police officer to justify her presence there?

4. What does Mr. Vercueil do the morning of Part Three "p.115-147"?

5. Who does the narrator try to wake up?

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