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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 prevents the narrator from going out in the days following her car drive?
(a) Her car is broken.
(b) The weather.
(c) A cold.
(d) The police is staking out the house.

2. How was Florence dressed in the narrator's dream?
(a) Like lady liberty.
(b) Like a Greek goddess.
(c) Like a white politician.
(d) Like a police officer.

3. What is the name of Florence's cousin?
(a) Mr. Amassa.
(b) Mr. Bwena.
(c) Mr. Thabane.
(d) Mr. Tima.

4. Who does the narrator find in her kitchen when she comes down to quiet Vercueil's dog?
(a) Behki's friend.
(b) Vercueil.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Florence.

5. Why does Vercueil go into the store?
(a) To buy whiskey.
(b) To buy brandy.
(c) To buy food.
(d) To buy cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young man the narrator and her group meet want?

2. Where does Vercueil bring the narrator?

3. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?

4. What happens late at night in Part Three?

5. What does the narrator say she is afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator told when she asks who is responsible?

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

3. What does the narrator wonder about her ability to love?

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

5. Why is Florence comforted inside the building?

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

7. What does John ask money for?

8. What advice does the narrator offer to Mr. Thabane?

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

10. What does the policeman at the roadblock tell the narrator?

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