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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 happened on Government Avenue in the narrator's dream in Part four?

2. What does the John do when he sees the narrator?

3. What does Mr. Vercueil say he bought?

4. What does the narrator try to do?

5. What does the young man the narrator and her group meet want?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator told when she asks who is responsible?

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

3. What was the narrator planning to do with her car?

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

5. What horrific scene do they encounter when they walk?

6. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

7. What has Mr. Vercueil become interested in?

8. What happens to Mrs. Curren when she is lying down under an overpass?

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

10. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why Vercueil acted as a guide or mentor to Mrs. Curren and how he influenced her.

Essay Topic 2

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