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

2. What is Mr. Thabane's current profession?
(a) He sells shoes.
(b) He is a teacher.
(c) He is a steel worker.
(d) He is a dock worker.

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

4. 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 will help the insurrection.
(d) That she wants to burn her car.

5. Who is the narrator's physician?
(a) Dr. Cobb.
(b) Dr. Hoom.
(c) Dr. Swatt.
(d) Dr. Syfret.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator notice is removed?

2. What does the narrator think is insane?

3. What is the name of Florence's cousin?

4. Who serves as a guide for the people in the narrator's car?

5. What does the narrator see being taken in an ambulance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is Florence comforted inside the building?

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

7. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

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

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

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

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