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

2. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?
(a) If she should have remarried.
(b) If she should have followed her to the United States.
(c) If she should have prevented her daughter from leaving.
(d) If she should have turned Bheki over to the police.

3. What does the narrator try to do while tipsy?
(a) Kiss Mr. Vercueil.
(b) Go for a swim.
(c) Drive.
(d) Throw the bottle out of the car.

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

5. What does the narrator compare aging to?
(a) A roller coaster ride.
(b) A long drive with young children.
(c) Riding a bicycle downhill.
(d) A drive with two dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about while being driven home?

2. Why does Vercueil go into the store?

3. What does the narrator say she would want to know when Vercueil asks about the dream?

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

5. What does Vercueil do while the national anthem plays on the TV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

2. What happens to Mrs. Curren when she is lying down under an overpass?

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

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

5. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

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

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

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

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

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

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