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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 is the narrator doing when the boy startles her?
(a) She is taking her medication.
(b) She is writing.
(c) She is cooking.
(d) She is reading.

2. What are some men forcing bystanders to do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Watch the fire burn the house.
(c) Give their money.
(d) Fight.

3. What is Vercueil curious about?
(a) How much money the narrator will leave him.
(b) Why she chose him.
(c) What her daughter's name is.
(d) What subjects the narrator taught.

4. What does Vercueil propose to the narrator?
(a) To go to the township.
(b) To go for a drive.
(c) To go to the U.S.A.
(d) To go shopping.

5. What does the narrator think is insane?
(a) The South African education system.
(b) The police powers.
(c) The way young people can find guns.
(d) The form of comradeship the boys have.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's name?

2. What does the narrator tell Mr. Vercueil?

3. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the narrator and Mr. Thabane discuss about comradeship?

2. What does the narrator think about when sitting in the car alone?

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

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

5. Who does Florence dress as at the start of Part Four?

6. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

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

8. What is playing on the television when Mr. Vercueil brings the television into the room?

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

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

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