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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. Whose hand does Rosa hold as she walks through the streets of Paris?

2. What quote does Bernard use when he speaks of his wife and children to Rosa?

3. Who does Rosa tell that she is leaving the country?

4. Who is Donna obliged to entertain one evening?

5. Why had Brandt been taken to the Burger house when he was fifteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with the woman in the street that Rosa finds and how does it affect her?

2. What are some of the experiences that Rosa and Katya share as Rosa's stay extends in Pages 214-261?

3. Who comes to dine on asparagus with Rosa and Katya and what advice do they give Rosa?

4. Where does Rosa's passbook allow her to go, and not go? Why is she allowed in certain places and not others?

5. How is finding Bassie the complete opposite of what Rosa would have imagined?

6. How do Katya and Rosa handle the idea of Lionel in their relationship?

7. Why might Rosa have chosen a married man as her lover and not the bricklayer she had met?

8. What is Greer's trial all about, and what is its outcome for Greer?

9. What is the reason for Flora's party? What specifically do the women discuss?

10. Who does Rosa meet at the bar and what happens between them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What greater significance does the woman in the nightgown have? How can she be seen as a theme of the novel?

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

Compare Rosa to Greer. What are each of the strengths and weaknesses in regards to the fight against apartheid? How does Greer's involvement differ from Rosa? Do they both have the same goals?

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