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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Conrad say was celebrated in Rosa's home as she grew up?

2. Who is Lily?

3. What do Rosa and Greer see on the side of the road on their way home from Fats' that they do not stop for?

4. What is shouted in the courtroom after Lionel Burger speaks?

5. When Rosa sees the raided building in the city, what is her reaction?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happened in the morning in the city that Marisa wants to know more about ,and what does Greer tell her about it?

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

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

9. 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?

10. How does Rosa view Clare?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Rosa's view of death after the man dies in the public square. How does she equate the death of the ordinary man to her parents' deaths and to her brother's death?

Essay Topic 2

At the end of Book One, what does Rosa believe about Conrad and what is the significance of this thought at this point in the novel? How does this thought change Rosa?

Essay Topic 3

What is Apartheid? Where did it stem from? What was the reasoning behind it? How long did it exist in South Africa? What were the effects of it?

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