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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 do the officers prevent the narrator from doing?

2. Who does the narrator and her group meet on the way back to the car?

3. What is the narrator impressed about?

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

5. What does the narrator want to do after looking at her watch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John ask when he comes downstairs?

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

3. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

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

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

6. What does the narrator think about when sitting in the car alone?

7. Why is Florence comforted inside the building?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss how Coetzee addresses mortality throughout the "Age of Iron".

Essay Topic 3

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

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