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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 person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?
(a) Create a bed and breakfast.
(b) Take a second mortgage.
(c) Rent to students.
(d) Rent to recently released prisoners.

2. What does Florence learn thanks to a phone call a few hours after the crash?
(a) Bheki's friend cannot be found in any hospital.
(b) That her application at the university was turned down.
(c) That the Soweto township was in full revolt.
(d) That her husband was fired.

3. What does the narrator give to the person that lives near her house the first evening?
(a) Water.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Food.

4. How does the narrator sign the letter she writes to her housekeeper?
(a) A.H.
(b) J.K.
(c) E.C.
(d) P.N.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the call the narrator receives while playing music about?

2. Where does the housekeeper live?

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

4. What does the narrator bring the person that lives near her house the morning after his return?

5. Why isn't Bheki in school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator find near her garage?

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

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

5. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

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

7. What happened to the narrator three years ago?

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

9. What does the narrator reassure Florence of?

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

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