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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Lionel Burger die?
(a) Starvation in prison.
(b) Heart attack in prison.
(c) Of a throat infection in prison.
(d) He is beaten in prison.

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

4. Who is Rosa named after?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

5. What memory does Rosa recall one night as she and Conrad walk past her old house?
(a) The day they arrested her father.
(b) The day her brother died.
(c) The night Sipho was shot.
(d) The night her mother died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Greer do with the dinner he is given at Fats'?

2. What does Lionel teach Bassie?

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

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

5. Who sends the two letters to Rosa on the anniversary of her father's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the man on the bench in the public square and what do the onlookers do?

2. What information does Rosa give the journalist concerning her parents?

3. What is the meeting between Marisa and Rosa all about?

4. How does Conrad see Rosa's childhood and where does he believe it will lead her?

5. At the beginning of the novel, how is Rosa's age crucial to the intensity of the story?

6. What happens at Ivy and Dick Terblanche's home on the day that Rosa goes to visit?

7. Who is the old-maid school teacher and what does she do to the Burgers?

8. How is Rosa's life tragic as shown in the first section of the novel?

9. What memory does Rosa describe as she and Conrad stop in front of her dad's house one evening while taking a walk?

10. What do Greer and Rosa see on their ride home from Orlanda and how and why do they react the way that they do?

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