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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about after the person she found leaves the house?

2. How does the narrator describe Mr Vercueil's usual temperament?

3. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?

4. What does the narrator feel about the person she is addressing in this book?

5. What does Florence learn thanks to a phone call a few hours after the crash?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the narrator three years ago?

2. What did the police do to Bheki and his friend?

3. What does the homeless men decline after answering questions about his birthplace?

4. Who does the narrator want out of the house?

5. What does Vercueil explain to the narrator when they reach the boy's hospital room?

6. What is unique about the aged woman's views on the apartheid system?

7. What is the narrator told about her plan to make a complaint?

8. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

9. Who enters the house at the start of Part Two, pg. 56-86?

10. What does the narrator warn Florence of regarding hate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the correlation between Mrs. Curren's act of writing letters and her self preservation in the "Age of Iron".

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the names, Hope and Beauty, Florence's daughters and how these names are used as an allegory in "Age of Iron".

Essay Topic 3

Examine how rules and order are depicted in the book, and conclude why Mrs. Curren believes that the rules are necessary to maintain peace.

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