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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 is the ethnicity of the narrator?

2. What does the narrator say about charity not being appreciated?

3. What does the narrator say about the media?

4. Who tries to intervene when Mr. Vercueil is being beaten?

5. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens after the police van continued driving?

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

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

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

6. What is the narrator surprised about when she observes Mr. Vercueil?

7. What does the narrator say about charity?

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

9. What does the narrator reassure Florence of?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the setting of Mrs. Curren's home and how Mrs. Curren attempts to protect her space.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the principles which the youth live by in the "Age of Iron" and compare it with Mrs. Curren's principles.

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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