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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Frank feel about having to share with Laurence?
(a) He was ambivalent to it.
(b) He was not happy.
(c) He was excited to have someone to talk to.
(d) He was extremely angry at the prospect.

2. Sometimes when Frank and Maria were together what comforted him?
(a) Listening to her breathing.
(b) The way she talked to him.
(c) Her holding him tightly.
(d) Their long passionate kisses.

3. How long does Maria say that she has been where she is?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 2 years.

4. Why did Dr. Ngema think the clinic idea was Frank's not Laurence's?
(a) Because Dr. Ngema doesn't know the difference between Frank and Laurence.
(b) Because Laurence wanted to give Frank credit.
(c) Because he suggested they start in Maria's village.
(d) Because Laurence was trying to help Frank's career.

5. How many patients do the doctors visit on rounds?
(a) .6.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

6. How does Zanele feel while she is eating dinner at Mama's?
(a) She is uncomfortable.
(b) She is relaxed.
(c) She is unsure.
(d) She is surprised.

7. Where does Laurence invite Frank to go with him?
(a) Across the border.
(b) Into the neighboring town.
(c) On a hike.
(d) Into the city.

8. How does Frank describe his relationship with Maria?
(a) One that lacks tenderness or kissing.
(b) One of convience.
(c) One of deep passionate love.
(d) One where they each satisfy their own needs.

9. With which of the following literary devices does Chapter 2 open?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Personification.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

10. What question did the Commandant ask Frank about the prisoner?
(a) Should he be taken to a hospital?
(b) How much more could he take?
(c) How could they make him confess?
(d) Was he already dead?

11. What does Raymond tell Frank about Tehogo?
(a) He will be leaving in a couple of months for a good job.
(b) He will be moving in with Raymond in a month.
(c) He will be leaving to attend medical school.
(d) He will be taking over a new room at the hospital next week.

12. What job does Frank tell Maria he holds?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Senator.

13. Why do the people hate the hospital where Frank and Laurence work?
(a) Because the doctors do not listen to them.
(b) The puppet dictator had lived there.
(c) It lacks up-to-date technology.
(d) It is dirty.

14. What would Frank and Laurence share?
(a) Patients.
(b) Office.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bedroom.

15. What happened to Frank's mother?
(a) She drowned when he was 10.
(b) She died in child birth.
(c) She was killed by soldiers.
(d) She died of leukemia.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what was the young illegal immigrant patient suffering?

2. What surprises Frank about Zanele?

3. What confuses Laurence about the hospital office?

4. How did Laurence meet his girlfriend?

5. What question does Laurence continually avoid?

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