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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 is mealie?

2. What does Rosa do for a living after she leaves the hospital?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the beating of the donkey? What does it symbolize for Rosa, and why can't she react to the incident the way that she wants to?

Essay Topic 2

How has fighting for a cause been too costly for Doctor Lionel Burger and his family?

Essay Topic 3

If Rosa is the protagonist of the story. Who are the antagonists? Name three antagonists and explain why they are antagonists and how they affect Rosa.

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