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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 Rosa remark that Fats will do if she is caught at his home by the police?

2. What does Rosa do on the day of the anniversary of her father's death?

3. What is the last trial in which Cathy and Lionel stand accused together?

4. How does Rosa feel about Conrad when she moves from the cottage?

5. What is Cathy's fight for the blacks?

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. What is the relationship between Conrad and Rosa from the time they met to the end of the first section of the book?

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

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

5. What is the relationship between Noel and Rosa? How long does it last? How does it end?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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