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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 do on the day of the anniversary of her father's death?
2. What is the main topic of conversation between the men at Fats' home?
3. What does Greer say "blackness" means?
4. Why does Greer come to see Rosa at her apartment?
5. In what year of his imprisonment does Lionel die?
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 occupation is Lionel Burger's and how does his social standing affect his views?
3. What is life like at the Nel's hotel for Rosa?
4. How does Conrad see Rosa's childhood and where does he believe it will lead her?
5. What cloak and dagger stuff has Rosa been involved in in the past, and what were the results?
6. Why do Rosa and Tony go stay with the Nels and for how long?
7. What is the relationship between Conrad and Rosa from the time they met to the end of the first section of the book?
8. At the beginning of the novel, how is Rosa's age crucial to the intensity of the story?
9. What recollections does Rosa have and why is she thinking about the past in after her visit to the Terblanche's home?
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
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
Compare Brandt's way of life and his outlook on the cause to that of Lionel's. How are they both on the same side? How are their approaches vastly different?
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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