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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. Where is Bheki's friend kept?
(a) In a cell at the local prison.
(b) In the waiting room of the hospital.
(c) In the psychiatric wing of the hospital.
(d) In a room full of older men.

2. Why does Vercueil say the narrator should tell her daughter about her cancer?
(a) Because if her daughter finds out later she would never forgive the narrator.
(b) Because her daughter is married to an oncologist.
(c) Because she needs all the support she can get.
(d) Because she could have a visa for the U.S.A.

3. 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 recently released prisoners.
(c) Rent to students.
(d) Create a bed and breakfast.

4. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?
(a) To prepare cocoa for everyone.
(b) To go home.
(c) To send Bheki's friend home.
(d) To go rent a good movie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil when she wakes?

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

3. Who follows Mr. Vercueil into the narrator's house?

4. What does the man buy with the money he takes from the narrator?

5. What does the narrator see the police do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator reassure Florence of?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the narrator told about her plan to make a complaint?

7. What does Vercueil explain to the narrator when they reach the boy's hospital room?

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

9. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

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

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