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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 hear while on the ground?

2. What does the narrator try to do?

3. What does the narrator say she is afraid of?

4. How was Florence dressed in the narrator's dream?

5. Where is the narrator put after she tells the one trying to get her out of her house that she has cancer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Mr. Vercueil and the narrator drive?

2. What does the narrator explain over tea?

3. What does the policeman at the roadblock tell the narrator?

4. Why does Mrs. Curren call Dr. Syfret?

5. What does John ask money for?

6. What does Mr. Vercueil say of the bottle in the paper bag?

7. What advice does the narrator offer to Mr. Thabane?

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

9. What is playing on the television when Mr. Vercueil brings the television into the room?

10. What does the narrator notice when passing by Florence's room in Part Three, p. 147-176?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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

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