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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. Where does the housekeeper's husband work?

2. In what time period is the "Age of Iron" set?

3. Where does the narrator find Mr. Vercueil when she wakes?

4. Why do the youth of the township do?

5. How long was the housekeeper absent?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about charity?

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

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

5. Who does the narrator see parked outside of her house?

6. What does the homeless man do when the narrator brings him coffee?

7. What does the narrator ask the homeless man to do upon her death?

8. What does the narrator say to the homeless man about her family?

9. What does the narrator reassure Florence of?

10. What does the narrator find near her garage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the significance of the statement that the House of Parliament is the "house of shame."

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Coetzee chose to use first person and a narrator to tell the story in the "Age of Iron".

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