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

2. Why do Rosa and Marcus go to Cape Town?
(a) Rosa wanted to make love by the sea.
(b) Rosa needed to get away after her father's death.
(c) Lionel had been a medical student there.
(d) Marcus said it was his favorite place.

3. What does Rosa consider a sickness?
(a) Not being able to ignore other people's suffering.
(b) Politics.
(c) Separation of blacks and whites.
(d) Privileged children.

4. What does Rosa understand about political change?
(a) It is only a battle for the very strong.
(b) It comes at a great cost.
(c) It only happens after many failures.
(d) It doesn't ever happen.

5. What is Greer's concern for Marisa after she arrives at Fats'?
(a) That she has been in the city too long.
(b) That she has been followed.
(c) That she was seen talking to Rosa in the shop.
(d) That she had not eaten.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lionel Burger die?

2. What memory does Rosa recall one night as she and Conrad walk past her old house?

3. What intimate information does Clare share with Rosa at the empty apartment?

4. What does the baby boy give to Rosa from the grandmother at Fats' home?

5. Where does Rosa meet Conrad the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What cloak and dagger stuff has Rosa been involved in in the past, and what were the results?

2. What offering does the baby boy make to Rosa? Where does the item come from, and what is its significance?

3. How is Rosa's life different than her cousin who carries her name?

4. From pages 62-70, how does Rosa view herself? What does she know about herself that she wishes she could change but won't?

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

6. What does Rosa recollect after the death of the man in the public square concerning her parents, Tony and Conrad?

7. What is the relationship between Conrad and Rosa from the time they met to the end of the first section of the book?

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

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

10. What does Rosa feel shortly before she leaves Fats' house?

(see the answer keys)

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