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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the cottage that Rosa once lived in with Conrad?
(a) It is burned down.
(b) It is reconstructed.
(c) It is bulldozed.
(d) It is destroyed by a gang.

3. What is mealie?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Vegetable.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Grain.

4. What does Greer do with the dinner he is given at Fats'?
(a) He pushes the food around his plate.
(b) He ignores it completely.
(c) He shares it with the little ones.
(d) He eats it voraciously.

5. How long do Tony and Rosa stay with their Aunt Velma?
(a) Five weeks.
(b) Four months.
(c) Six months.
(d) Ten weeks.

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

7. What is Colette Swan studying when Lionel marries her?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Politics.
(d) Ballet.

8. What does the old-maid school teacher do to the Burger family?
(a) She betrays Cathy by sleeping with Lionel.
(b) She sells their story to a journalist.
(c) She betrays Lionel at the trial.
(d) She takes possessions from their home.

9. What response does Tandi make to Rosa when Rosa asks her if the baby is hers?
(a) "Of Course, he is mine."
(b) "No, but I take care of him often."
(c) "They're all ours."
(d) "No, he is Margaret's, but he loves me."

10. What intimate information does Clare share with Rosa at the empty apartment?
(a) Clare's lover is a married man.
(b) Clare had an abortion.
(c) Clare has a baby on one knows about.
(d) Clare's mother has a lover.

11. How many black miners participated in the strike of 1946 in South Africa?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 76,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

12. Why do Rosa and Tony stay at her Aunt Velma's hotel when they are young?
(a) Their parents are away on business.
(b) Their parents are too busy to care for them.
(c) She and Tony go for a visit.
(d) Their parents are in jail.

13. What does Greer take a picture of in the city that he tells Marisa about?
(a) A cop holding a black man by the scruff of his neck.
(b) People running from the police.
(c) A black man resisting arrest.
(d) A cop falling.

14. What is shouted in the courtroom after Lionel Burger speaks?
(a) Amen.
(b) Alonga, Amonga.
(c) Burger, Burger.
(d) Awetha, Amandhla.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Nel relatives own, besides the hotel?

2. Whose car does Conrad drive?

3. What does Conrad tell Rosa about her future?

4. Where does Rosa meet Marisa?

5. What two items does Rosa bring with her to the fortress in the opening pages of the novel?

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