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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 Florence tell the narrator?

2. What does the narrator tell Mr. Vercueil?

3. Where does Vercueil bring the narrator?

4. What road does the narrator want to drive her car down?

5. What is Vercueil curious about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the narrator and Mr. Thabane discuss about comradeship?

3. Why does Mr. Thabane advise the narrator to put a jacket over her head?

4. What does the narrator wonder about her ability to love?

5. What has Mr. Vercueil become interested in?

6. How is Mr. Vercueil different at the start of Part Three, pg. 115-147?

7. What seems to ease Mrs. Curren's pain?

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

9. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the symbolism and meaning of the title, "Age of Iron".

Essay Topic 2

Examine how rules and order are depicted in the book, and conclude why Mrs. Curren believes that the rules are necessary to maintain peace.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the impact Bheki's death had on the different characters in the "Age of Iron".

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