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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bernard suggest he and Rosa go to take on a project once she has her French papers?
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Africa.

2. Who is Donna obliged to entertain one evening?
(a) An Italian friend of her family.
(b) An African friend of her family.
(c) A French friend of her family.
(d) An English friend of her family.

3. What city does Rosa visit where her father's ex-wife lives?
(a) London, England.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Nice, France.
(d) Moscow, Russia.

4. What is the conversation about between the women right before the party for Manolis?
(a) Female health issues.
(b) Dressing for the party.
(c) Pierre.
(d) Bernard.

5. Why is Rosa not able to attend Greer's trial?
(a) She goes to the farm to see her aunt and uncle.
(b) She begins work in a black hospital.
(c) She begins work in a movement against the government.
(d) The government denies her access.

6. Why does Rosa go visit the Nels?
(a) Because Marie has been arrested.
(b) Because she wants to tell them of her impending arrest.
(c) Because she wants to tell them of her trip to France.
(d) Because she has missed them.

7. At Donna's party, what is the Englishman's opinion of Utopia?
(a) He says it is evil.
(b) He says it is misunderstood.
(c) He says it is necessary.
(d) He says it is Western thought.

8. Who is Arnys?
(a) A friend of Rosa's.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A singer who owns a bar.
(d) A politician.

9. How many homes does Rosa visit in a number of months in the town in which her father died?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

10. What is Madame Bagnelli afraid of when she picks Rosa up at the airport?
(a) That customs has stopped Rosa.
(b) That Rosa is detained in Africa.
(c) That she is a day late.
(d) That Rosa has decided not to come.

11. What does the government assume Rosa is trying to get from the Nationalists?
(a) Information.
(b) A book about her father.
(c) A job.
(d) A passbook.

12. What will England always be like for Rosa, as noted in the last page of Part Two?
(a) Gloomy all down the paths of pleasure.
(b) Shady all down a sunny street.
(c) Cold all down the warm walkways.
(d) Bare all down the tree lined avenue.

13. Where does Brandt Vermeulen's closest friendship lie?
(a) Ministery of Interior.
(b) Communist Party.
(c) Nationlists Party.
(d) Ministry of Defense.

14. What does Rosa state is her underlying reason for going to stay with Katya?
(a) The African government won't look for her there.
(b) To see how others live in another country.
(c) To learn how to defect from her father.
(d) To learn about her father's past.

15. According to the architect at Donna's party, he thinks that the Leftist view of life is what?
(a) That the Left is what is wrong with Socialism.
(b) Freedom is the condition of happiness.
(c) Rationalism destroys heaven.
(d) Happiness needs institutions to protect it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Madame Bagnelli suggest that Rosa stay in the house?

2. Who is Rosa speaking to in the last section of the novel?

3. What name does Madame Bagnelli want Rosa to call her?

4. What occurs on June 16, 1976 in South Africa?

5. Who does the woman in the nightgown make Rosa worry about?

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