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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 328- 361.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Rosa Burger going to visit on the day that she first goes to the prison?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her teacher.

2. What does Daniel tell Rosa about one of his boys?
(a) He is smart and will go to school to be a doctor.
(b) He will come to work at the hotel.
(c) He will go work in her garden at home.
(d) He will come to marry Rosa.

3. Why does Rosa move out of the cottage?
(a) She is sick of it.
(b) She wants to live in the city.
(c) Conrad is sleeping with someone else.
(d) Conrad asks her to.

4. Why is the group knocking at the prison door in the opening pages of the novel?
(a) They came to complain.
(b) They came for visiting hour.
(c) They came to revolt.
(d) They were promised they could deliver supplies to their loved ones.

5. What did the trial after the strike allow the government to do?
(a) Pass the Supression of Communism Act.
(b) Get Lionel Burger ousted from the Communist Party.
(c) Stop underground operations.
(d) Shut down the African Mineworkers Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Rosa compare the garbage that Clare disposes of from the empty apartment?

2. What suggestion does Bernard make about the publication of a book about Lionel?

3. Why had Brandt been taken to the Burger house when he was fifteen?

4. Why does Greer come to see Rosa at her apartment?

5. What does Fats want as he explains to Rosa when he visits her?

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