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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 hear while on the ground?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) People trying to find an unidentified white woman.
(c) People calling for the killing of all whites.
(d) People plotting a bank heist.

2. What do the officers prevent the narrator from doing?
(a) Getting in the ambulance with John.
(b) Leaving the house.
(c) Following the ambulance with her car.
(d) Going upstairs.

3. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to do when she hears the national anthem?
(a) To change channels.
(b) To mute the sound.
(c) To turn the TV off.
(d) To dance.

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

5. Why does Florence's cousin give the narrator a jacket to put over her head?
(a) To protect her from the rain.
(b) To hide that she is wealthy.
(c) To hide from those she wronged.
(d) To hide that she is white.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Vercueil appear to be in Part Three "p.115-147"?

2. How long does it take for the pharmacy to deliver the narrator's new medication?

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

4. What happens late at night in Part Three?

5. Who does the narrator reach on the phone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Florence comforted inside the building?

3. What does Mr. Vercueil say of the bottle in the paper bag?

4. What directions does Florence give to the narrator when they arrive in the township area at the start of Part Three, pg. 87-115?

5. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

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

7. What does John ask money for?

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

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

10. Why does Mr. Thabane advise the narrator to put a jacket over her head?

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