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

2. How do the blacks treat Rosa when she goes to Fat's home?
(a) They ignore her until Marisa comes.
(b) They seem frightened of her.
(c) As a special person.
(d) They shower gifts upon her.

3. What does Conrad tell Rosa about her future?
(a) That she will die for her cause.
(b) That she too will go to jail.
(c) That she will live differently than her parents did.
(d) That she will help bring change.

4. At age fourteen, what does Lionel come to realize about the blacks and whites?
(a) The blacks have to carry passports and the whites do not.
(b) The blacks are only allowed in certain establishments.
(c) The blacks are not allowed in the trade unions.
(d) The blacks are all poor.

5. Why is Rosa engaged to Noel de Witt?
(a) Because she loves him.
(b) So she can visit him in prison and get information for her parents.
(c) He is a revolutionary who intrigues Rosa.
(d) He is a journalist who will help her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Lionel Burger speak when he gets his chance in court?

2. How does Rosa feel about Clare in general?

3. What does Rosa consider a sickness?

4. Where do the black men sit in the public square?

5. How do the Sunday dinners at the Burgers' house come about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is life like at the Nel's hotel for Rosa?

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

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

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

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

6. What politics are the Burgers involved in and what is their stand on the issue?

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

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

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

10. In the first section of the novel pages 9-39, many points of view are used. Whose points of view is the story told from?

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