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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 say to the young man her and her group meet as she rejects his request?

2. What does the narrator wonder about her daughter?

3. What does the narrator notice is removed?

4. Who picks the narrator up after she wakes up?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

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

4. Who does Florence dress as at the start of Part Four?

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

6. What does Mrs. Curren do when Mr. Vercueil is not looking?

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

8. What does Mrs. Curren tell the police when under medication?

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

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

Examine the impact Bheki's death had on the different characters 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

Analyze why Coetzee chose to write using fiction in "Age of Iron".

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