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

2. What type of document introduces the "Age of Iron"?
(a) A long letter.
(b) A short journal.
(c) A poem.
(d) A book.

3. How does the narrator describe Mr Vercueil's usual temperament?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Excited.
(c) Happy.
(d) On edge.

4. How does the housekeeper feel about the beating of Mr. Vercueil?
(a) She can understand it.
(b) She condemns it.
(c) She is proud of it.
(d) She wishes to have done it herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the narrator's car in Page 16?

2. Where is Bheki's friend kept?

3. What does access to money allow Mr. Vercueil to do?

4. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?

5. Where is the person the narrator finds at the start of Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the homeless man do when the narrator brings him coffee?

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

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

4. What does the narrator not understand about the townships?

5. What does Bheki inform the narrator of regarding the police and not being in school?

6. Who does the narrator see parked outside of her house?

7. What does the narrator say about the boy and her teaching?

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

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

10. What is unique about the aged woman's views on the apartheid system?

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