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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rosa do for a living after she leaves the hospital?
(a) She works at the train station.
(b) She works in a retail store.
(c) She works for a trade journal.
(d) She works on a farm.

2. How does Rosa feel about Clare in general?
(a) She is indifferent to her.
(b) She pities her.
(c) She is sickened by her.
(d) She loathes her.

3. What question does Rosa ask of Clare when they are looking at the empty apartment?
(a) "Why do you want to live here?"
(b) "Why do you go on with it."
(c) "Won't giving this apartment to a this girl cause you trouble?"
(d) "Why do you want to keep me involved?"

4. How does Rosa see the boat-builders: the friends of Conrad's?
(a) As simple people.
(b) As free people.
(c) As empathetic people.
(d) As apathetic people.

5. With what were the two hotel rooms where Rosa stayed filled?
(a) Books.
(b) Bed linens.
(c) Souvenirs.
(d) Flowers.

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

7. Who is Lily?
(a) She is Rosa's girlhood friend.
(b) She is Mrs. Burger's colleague.
(c) She is the servant of the Burger's.
(d) She is a neighbor of the Burgers'.

8. What does Rosa know happened at the Providence House that Marisa was unaware of until later?
(a) Shops are shut down.
(b) The raid.
(c) A killing.
(d) High school children were sent from their classrooms.

9. What do the Nel relatives own, besides the hotel?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A ranch.
(c) A farm.
(d) A cafe.

10. What did Noel de Witt want to become for his career?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A politician.
(c) A prison warden.
(d) A doctor.

11. Why has Lionel been imprisoned?
(a) For attmepting to overthrow the government.
(b) For treason.
(c) For fighting against apartheid.
(d) For theft.

12. How does Rosa feel about Conrad when she moves from the cottage?
(a) She feels like he is her brother.
(b) She is apathetic.
(c) She cries for days.
(d) She is very angry with him.

13. What does Lionel teach Bassie?
(a) How to play soccer.
(b) How to swim.
(c) How to dive.
(d) How to pitch.

14. What does Conrad say was celebrated in Rosa's home as she grew up?
(a) Political events.
(b) Birthdays.
(c) Misery.
(d) Elections.

15. What kind of lessons does Conrad take in the evenings?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Karate.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosa remark that Fats will do if she is caught at his home by the police?

2. What is James afraid of in regards to the black children?

3. What does Clare want from Rosa when she goes to her apartment to see her?

4. What does Greer take a picture of in the city that he tells Marisa about?

5. How does Lionel Burger die?

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