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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 Florence do after the crash?
(a) Call the parents of Bheki's friend.
(b) Call the hospital where Bheki's friend was sent to.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Call the local chapter of the black panthers.

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

3. What does the narrator ask Florence about?
(a) How her husband is doing.
(b) If she can clean the homeless person's clothes.
(c) If she wants a puppy.
(d) The troubles in the township.

4. Why does the narrator refuse to give the man money for nothing?
(a) Because she does not have cash.
(b) Because it fosters laziness.
(c) Because it is a bad precedent.
(d) Because he does not deserve it.

5. Who follows Mr. Vercueil into the narrator's house?
(a) Two dogs.
(b) A woman.
(c) A cat.
(d) A friend of his.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Florence learn thanks to a phone call a few hours after the crash?

2. Who is the narrator of the book?

3. Where is the narrator's husband in Part One?

4. Why does Florence bring Bheki back to the house?

5. What instrument does the narrator play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator say to the homeless man about her family?

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

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

9. What is the aged woman diagnosed with at the start of Part One, pg. 3-15?

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

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