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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 narrator offer to do for Florence?
(a) Drive her to the hospital.
(b) Bring her back home.
(c) Buy her a car.
(d) Pay for legal expenses.

2. Where does the narrator live?
(a) France.
(b) U.S.A.
(c) Germany.
(d) South Africa.

3. What job does the narrator offer the man she went to town with?
(a) Cleaning the gutters.
(b) Cleaning the back yard.
(c) Repairing the second floor lights.
(d) Fixing a drainage problem.

4. In what time period is the "Age of Iron" set?
(a) Mid 1960's.
(b) Mid 1980's.
(c) Mid 1990's.
(d) Mid 1970's.

5. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?
(a) Bring Bheki to the police.
(b) File a complaint about the police.
(c) Call the mayor's office.
(d) Bring Bheki to a white doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?

2. What does the narrator feel about the person she is addressing in this book?

3. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do in the letter she writes?

4. What does the housekeeper call Mr. Vercueil?

5. What type of document introduces the "Age of Iron"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the police do to Bheki and his friend?

2. What happened to the narrator three years ago?

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

4. What happens after the police van continued driving?

5. What does the narrator explain when a neighbor who calls on the phone?

6. What does the narrator tell the homeless man stories about on the trip into town?

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

8. Who does the narrator reveal she is speaking to according to Part One, pg. 3-15?

9. What does the narrator ask the homeless man to do upon her death?

10. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

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