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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Michael K weighed less than 90 pounds when he enters the ___________ ward at the camp in Cape Town.
(a) Mental health.
(b) Administrative.
(c) Labor.
(d) Medical.

2. What did not arrive as it usually did at camp the next day, leaving Michael K to wonder if they were being left to die?
(a) Water supply.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Food supply.
(d) Medicine.

3. Who asked Michael K about his face and even shared his lunch with K?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Robert.
(c) The guard.
(d) The doctor.

4. Michael K made strange statements that make the doctor believe his ________ is dead.
(a) Brother.
(b) Mother.
(c) Father.
(d) Uncle.

5. The doctor was told that Michael K was running a _________ ground for rebels in the mountains.
(a) Food.
(b) Cover.
(c) Staging.
(d) Camouflage.

6. Michael K learns of men on the mountains who come out at night to disrupt the government villages, called ____________.
(a) Ghost men.
(b) Saboteurs.
(c) Strangolos.
(d) Rangers.

7. The relative of Captain Oosthuizen was a ____________ and drove Michael K ruthlessly the entire day.
(a) King.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Rancher.
(d) Prince.

8. Michael K actually did not make any sign of ____________ when in the hospital.
(a) Wanting to leave.
(b) Eating.
(c) Hearing people talk.
(d) Recovering.

9. If anyone left the camp where Michael K was at, they would be sent to the ________ camp called Brandvlei.
(a) Death.
(b) Hard labor.
(c) Mission.
(d) Christian.

10. What was Michael K too weak to fight off, so it was inserted into his body to help him feel better?
(a) A screw in his head.
(b) A banana bag.
(c) Nose cannula.
(d) Food drip.

11. A man speaks to Michael K about a town called __________ desired the refugees in the camp, though they were still relying on the cheap labor.
(a) Point Arena.
(b) Blue Cote.
(c) Prince Albert.
(d) Cote d'Azur.

12. The signs on the area announcing __________ information had never been removed.
(a) Train.
(b) Price.
(c) Race.
(d) Meat.

13. When the police found Michael K delirious, they assumed that he was _________ as he was wandering around in a stupor.
(a) A refugee.
(b) Drunk.
(c) Sick.
(d) Crazy.

14. The ________ shop in Prince Albert mysteriously exploded and fire spread in the town.
(a) Paper.
(b) Grocery.
(c) Armory.
(d) Welding.

15. The grandson admits to Michael K that he is a deserter of the ________.
(a) Refugee camp.
(b) Army.
(c) Government.
(d) Police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Michael K used to get cold at night and would complain about being made _________.

2. The doctor believes that Michael is too ________ to have been helping the rebels.

3. The camp where Michael K was at was patrolled by __________ which were police with blue berets.

4. Michael K collapsed during the training after suffering from labored breathing and a low ____________.

5. The captain decide that the refugees were ungrateful _________ and that they would starve as a result of the explosion.

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