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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 144- 170.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affliction does Clare have that Rosa notes more than once?
(a) Psoriasis.
(b) Edema.
(c) Eczema.
(d) Melanoma.

2. Why does Greer come to see Rosa at her apartment?
(a) Marisa sends him to take Rosa to her.
(b) He works with the biographer.
(c) He comes to give her information about Bassie.
(d) He is there to photograph her.

3. In what year of his imprisonment does Lionel die?
(a) Fifth.
(b) Tenth.
(c) Third.
(d) Twentieth.

4. What does Dick whisper to Rosa in the window of her car as she is about to leave his home?
(a) To join the Communist Party.
(b) She should be part of the revolt that is about to happen.
(c) Beware Flora.
(d) She should stay away from all of Lionel's associates.

5. Why do Rosa and Marcus go to Cape Town?
(a) Rosa wanted to make love by the sea.
(b) Lionel had been a medical student there.
(c) Rosa needed to get away after her father's death.
(d) Marcus said it was his favorite place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the man in the park who was sitting on the bench across from Rosa?

2. Who is Rosa Burger going to visit on the day that she first goes to the prison?

3. What does Greer tell Rosa about the book that he has read from a former political prisoner now in exile?

4. What happens to the cottage that Rosa once lived in with Conrad?

5. Why has Lionel been imprisoned?

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