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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 narrator stop to rest?

2. What does the narrator's medications cause?

3. What does the police tell the narrator?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator explain over tea?

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

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

4. Why is Florence comforted inside the building?

5. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Florence's reaction to Mr. Vercueil and compare it with Mrs. Curren's reaction to him.

Essay Topic 3

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

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