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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 ask Vercueil to do when she hears the national anthem?
(a) To mute the sound.
(b) To change channels.
(c) To dance.
(d) To turn the TV off.

2. How does the narrator call the house of Parliament?
(a) The house of shame.
(b) The house of horror.
(c) The house of hate.
(d) The house of injustice.

3. What does the narrator feel towards the boy?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Hate.
(d) Love.

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

5. What are some men forcing bystanders to do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Watch the fire burn the house.
(c) Fight.
(d) Give their money.

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

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

8. What excuse does the narrator give to the police officer to justify her presence there?
(a) She is driving her employee back home.
(b) She is the mayor.
(c) She is a lawyer.
(d) She is chief of police.

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

10. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?
(a) If she should have turned Bheki over to the police.
(b) If she should have prevented her daughter from leaving.
(c) If she should have followed her to the United States.
(d) If she should have remarried.

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. What is Vercueil curious about?
(a) How much money the narrator will leave him.
(b) Why she chose him.
(c) What subjects the narrator taught.
(d) What her daughter's name is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Vercueil say he bought?

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

3. What is the boy's name?

4. How does the narrator sign one of the letters where she talks about Vercueil?

5. What is the narrator impressed about?

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