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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 the conversation about between the women right before the party for Manolis?

2. Where does Bernard suggest he and Rosa go to take on a project once she has her French papers?

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

4. How long does it take Rosa to go back to the town where her father died?

5. Who is Arnys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Rosa's thoughts concerning her future with Bernard?

2. Why does Rosa go to London? What are Bernard's plans concerning London, and what delays him?

3. What is the political topic of conversation at Donna's party?

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

5. Who is Bernard Chabalier?

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

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

8. What specifically transpires in the first meeting between Brandt and Rosa?

9. In Pages 262-290, how does Rosa become part of France?

10. What is the consequence of Bassie's phone call for Rosa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Rosa react concerning her passport before she leaves the country? What is she afraid of? Why is she afraid? What occurrences happen that she reacts to?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Rosa go to France? How does she almost accomplish her goal in going there?

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