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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?
(a) Take a second mortgage.
(b) Rent to students.
(c) Rent to recently released prisoners.
(d) Create a bed and breakfast.

2. Who tries to intervene when Mr. Vercueil is being beaten?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Florence.
(c) The police.
(d) Concerned neighbors.

3. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.
(b) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.
(c) Because he wants to join the army.
(d) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.

4. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?
(a) The homeless man.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) The neighbor.
(d) A mechanic.

5. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?
(a) He leaves.
(b) He sleeps.
(c) He goes to the hospital.
(d) He stops drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What composer is the narrator particularly fond of?

2. What does the narrator say about charity not being appreciated?

3. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?

4. Why does the narrator refuse to give the man money for nothing?

5. What does Vercueil say caused the shouting man's condition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the narrator do to ease her pain at the end of Part One, p. 3-15?

2. What does the homeless men decline after answering questions about his birthplace?

3. Who enters the house at the start of Part Two, pg. 56-86?

4. What does the narrator warn Florence of regarding hate?

5. What happens after the police van continued driving?

6. What does the narrator reassure Florence of?

7. What does the narrator do when her car won't start according to Part One, pg. 15-33?

8. What is the narrator surprised about when she observes Mr. Vercueil?

9. What did Mr. Vercueil do with more access to money?

10. Who returns with her two young daughters and teenage son in Part Two, pgs. 35-56?

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