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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 say to the young man her and her group meet as she rejects his request?
(a) That she wants to help.
(b) That she wants to go home.
(c) That she wants to burn her car.
(d) That she will help the insurrection.

2. Who does the narrator and her group meet on the way back to the car?
(a) Bheki.
(b) Florence's sister.
(c) Florence's husband.
(d) A friend of Bheki.

3. Where is John sitting on Page 147?
(a) In the narrator's study.
(b) On the front porch.
(c) On Florence's bed.
(d) On the kitchen floor.

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

5. What happened on Government Avenue in the narrator's dream in Part four?
(a) She burns down the Parliament.
(b) She meets with her daughter.
(c) She burns down her house.
(d) She burns down a Greek temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator try to wake up?

2. What do the officers prevent the narrator from doing?

3. Who is the narrator's physician?

4. What does the narrator's medications cause?

5. What does Vercueil do instead of what the narrator asked?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does John ask when he comes downstairs?

6. Why is Florence comforted inside the building?

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

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

9. What has Mr. Vercueil become interested in?

10. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

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