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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 know happened at the Providence House that Marisa was unaware of until later?
(a) Shops are shut down.
(b) A killing.
(c) High school children were sent from their classrooms.
(d) The raid.

2. What did Noel de Witt want to become for his career?
(a) A politician.
(b) A prison warden.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A farmer.

3. What does the schoolmaster say about what blacks want in the discussion at Fats' home?
(a) They want political leaders in jail.
(b) They want to be alive--not killed.
(c) They want the white man to disappear.
(d) They want to fight at any cost.

4. What does Lionel teach Bassie?
(a) How to play soccer.
(b) How to swim.
(c) How to pitch.
(d) How to dive.

5. What two items does Rosa bring with her to the fortress in the opening pages of the novel?
(a) A quilt and a water bottle.
(b) A book and a dress.
(c) A quilt and food.
(d) Food and clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the cottage that Rosa once lived in with Conrad?

2. How does Tosa view Ivy and Dick after she visits them in their home?

3. What does Clare want from Rosa when she goes to her apartment to see her?

4. What response does Tandi make to Rosa when Rosa asks her if the baby is hers?

5. What happens to the man in the park who was sitting on the bench across from Rosa?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Clare want Rosa to do and how does Rosa react to the request?

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

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

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

7. Why do Rosa and Tony go stay with the Nels and for how long?

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

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

10. What recollections does Rosa have and why is she thinking about the past in after her visit to the Terblanche's home?

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