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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 instrument does the narrator play?
(a) Piano.
(b) The trombone.
(c) The guitar.
(d) The violin.

2. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Drive white people out of the township.
(b) Fight with white students.
(c) Burn a police station.
(d) Burn their own school.

3. What does the narrator write about?
(a) The Berlin wall.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) The space race.
(d) The Afghan war.

4. What happens to the narrator's car in Page 16?
(a) It gets a flat tire.
(b) The engine backfires.
(c) It refuses to start.
(d) The engine starts on fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury does Bheki's friend have following the crash?

2. Who is the narrator of the book?

3. Where is Bheki's friend kept?

4. What does the narrator say about the media?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when the narrator leaves to go shopping?

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

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