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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Vercueil say he bought?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Fire juice.
(d) Alcohol.

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

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

4. How does the narrator sign one of the letters where she talks about Vercueil?
(a) Mrs. C.
(b) Mrs. V.
(c) Mrs. B.
(d) Mrs. H.

5. What does the narrator's medications cause?
(a) Blackouts.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Drowsiness.
(d) Incontinence.

6. What is Mr. Thabane's current profession?
(a) He is a steel worker.
(b) He is a teacher.
(c) He is a dock worker.
(d) He sells shoes.

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

8. 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 protect her from the rain.
(d) To hide that she is wealthy.

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

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

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

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

13. What does the narrator tell Mr. Vercueil?
(a) That Bheki was arrested.
(b) That she wants to die.
(c) That Bheki was shot.
(d) That her daughter doesn't like her.

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

15. Who gives the narrator little help after the narrator tries to take her car home?
(a) The military.
(b) The township inhabitants.
(c) The police.
(d) The white township guards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Florence learn late at night in Part Three?

2. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to fix?

3. What does the narrator think of Vercueil's cooking?

4. What does the narrator see being taken in an ambulance?

5. What happened on Government Avenue in the narrator's dream in Part four?

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