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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 does Rosa do on the day of the anniversary of her father's death?
(a) She goes shopping.
(b) She goes to his grave.
(c) She visits Ivy and Dick.
(d) She goes to Lenin's grave.

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

3. What does Clare want from Rosa when she goes to her apartment to see her?
(a) She wants Rosa to join the revolt.
(b) She wants Rosa to protest with her.
(c) She wants Rosa to get the key to the copy room at work.
(d) She wants Rosa to make copies for the cause.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rosa doing in the public square?

2. What does the watchman come to see Conrad about?

3. What is mealie?

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

5. Why do Rosa and Marcus go to Cape Town?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Rosa view Clare?

4. What occupation is Lionel Burger's and how does his social standing affect his views?

5. What happens in the city on the anniversary of Lionel's death and how does Rosa react to it and why?

6. What does Greer offer to give Rosa, and how does she feel about it?

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

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

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

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

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