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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 feel towards the boy?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Hate.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Love.

2. What happens late at night in Part Three?
(a) Florence leaves for Zimbabwe.
(b) Florence receives a phone call.
(c) Florence is arrested.
(d) Florence is wounded in a shootout.

3. What does the narrator say about John?
(a) He has suicide thoughts.
(b) She thinks he has a gun.
(c) She thinks people are after him.
(d) He wants to kill police officers.

4. Who picks the narrator up after she wakes up?
(a) Florence.
(b) Thabane.
(c) Vercueil.
(d) The police.

5. Where is the narrator put after she tells the one trying to get her out of her house that she has cancer?
(a) On the couch.
(b) In her study.
(c) On her bed.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is with the narrator as she drives to the township?

2. What road does the narrator want to drive her car down?

3. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to do to help with the pain?

4. Why did Vercueil abandon his career at sea?

5. What does the narrator try to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What horrific scene do they encounter when they walk?

2. What does the narrator notice when passing by Florence's room in Part Three, p. 147-176?

3. What seems to ease Mrs. Curren's pain?

4. What does Mrs. Curren tell the police when under medication?

5. What does the narrator explain over tea?

6. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

7. What was the narrator planning to do with her car?

8. How is Mr. Vercueil different at the start of Part Three, pg. 115-147?

9. What does Mrs. Curren do when Mr. Vercueil is not looking?

10. Where do Mr. Vercueil and the narrator drive?

(see the answer keys)

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