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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 tell Mr. Vercueil as he enters the kitchen?

2. How long was the housekeeper absent?

3. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?

4. What does the narrator offer to do for Florence?

5. Why does Florence bring Bheki back to the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the boy and her teaching?

2. What does Bheki inform the narrator of regarding the police and not being in school?

3. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

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

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

6. Who returns with her two young daughters and teenage son in Part Two, pgs. 35-56?

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

8. What happens when the narrator leaves to go shopping?

9. What does the narrator say about charity?

10. Why does the narrator say she cannot give him money for nothing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Define epistolary novel and discuss how "Age of Iron" is an example.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Vercueil acted as a guide or mentor to Mrs. Curren and how he influenced her.

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