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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the police stop the narrator's car?
(a) At a road block.
(b) At a light.
(c) At a gas station.
(d) On the side of the road.

2. What does the narrator say she is afraid of?
(a) The dog biting her.
(b) Seeing Vercueil in her dreams.
(c) Dying.
(d) Hearing the national anthem for eternity.

3. What does the narrator think about after Vercueil left her alone?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her mistakes in life.
(c) The dog.
(d) Her death.

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

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

6. Who does the narrator reach on the phone?
(a) A police officer.
(b) Mr. Thabane.
(c) Florence.
(d) Florence's mother.

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

8. What does the narrator and her group stop to watch?
(a) A knife fight.
(b) A fire.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A beating.

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

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

11. Who helps the narrator find her way home?
(a) Vercueil.
(b) Mr. Thabane.
(c) Florence.
(d) The military.

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

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

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

15. What does the narrator see inside the building they go to?
(a) 8 dead bodies.
(b) 12 dead bodies.
(c) 6 dead bodies.
(d) 16 dead bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some men forcing bystanders to do?

2. What does the narrator say she would want to know when Vercueil asks about the dream?

3. What does the young man the narrator and her group meet want?

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

5. What is the boy's name?

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