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

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

4. When Rosa sees the raided building in the city, what is her reaction?
(a) She stops to watch and listen.
(b) She questions people around her as to what is happening.
(c) She turns around and runs.
(d) She quickly moves away from the area.

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

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

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

8. To what does Rosa compare the garbage that Clare disposes of from the empty apartment?
(a) A body.
(b) A dead fish.
(c) A secret.
(d) A dead rat.

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

10. What happens to the man in the park who was sitting on the bench across from Rosa?
(a) Two hobos mug him.
(b) One of the boys kicks him.
(c) He dies on the bench.
(d) He drops his ice cream cone and the pigeons eat it.

11. How old is Rosa Burger on the day that she first goes to the prison?
(a) 10.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 20.

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

13. What does the watchman come to see Conrad about?
(a) A bet.
(b) A ship.
(c) Rosa.
(d) A meeting for black people.

14. Where do the black men sit in the public square?
(a) Anywhere.
(b) On the grass.
(c) On benches marked for them.
(d) On the fountain.

15. Why was Ivy Terblanche sentenced to prison in the past?
(a) She was caught passing information against the government.
(b) She would not testify against Lionel.
(c) She would not testify against her husband.
(d) She was a member of the Communist Party.