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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank admit to Maria about Laurence?
(a) He is crazy.
(b) Dr. Ngema is trying to get him fired.
(c) He wishes Laurence had never come.
(d) They are friends.

2. How does the evening between Zanele and Frank end?
(a) They end up together in Zanele's room having sex.
(b) The spend the entire night talking about life and Laurence.
(c) The colonel interrupts and takes Frank away.
(d) Zanele curses at Frank and runs off to her room.

3. Why does Frank leave the house?
(a) He feels an evil presence in it.
(b) He sees it has already been ransacked.
(c) He hears others coming toward the house.
(d) He hears Laurence calling to him.

4. Why does Maria tell Frank not to come one day?
(a) Because her neighbors are beginning to talk.
(b) Because she has to go to work.
(c) Because she needs to go out.
(d) Because her husband will be there.

5. What does Frank press Maria to tell him?
(a) Her African name.
(b) Whether or not she is married.
(c) How she feels about him.
(d) How she makes the things she sells.

6. Who is the Brigadier?
(a) The head of the miltary.
(b) The biggest drug lord in the country.
(c) The new militia leader who is trying to overthrow the government.
(d) The former, now deposed leader.

7. How does Zanele feel about her relationship with Laurence?
(a) She is confused and uncertain.
(b) She is in love and feels eager to move forward.
(c) She is sure and feels strongly about the relationship.
(d) She is surprised by this different side of Laurence she is seeing.

8. What is the setting of the story as it opens?
(a) School.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Home.
(d) Government building.

9. How does Frank feel about Tehogo's presence?
(a) He resents him.
(b) He despises him.
(c) He envies him.
(d) He respects him.

10. Which of the following is the best description of breakfast?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Formal.
(c) Relaxed.
(d) Comfortable.

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

12. How did Laurence meet his girlfriend?
(a) He met her at the hospital.
(b) He met her while they were both studying to be doctors.
(c) He has known her since they were both children.
(d) He met her when she was doing famine relief work.

13. How did the bureaucrats describe the hospital?
(a) As the only real hospital.
(b) As a tool of their enemies.
(c) As insulting.
(d) As a joke.

14. Which of the following is the best antonym for the term apathetic?
(a) Bored.
(b) Energetic.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Interested.

15. Why did Frank originally come to the hospital?
(a) To take over for Dr. Ngema.
(b) To help the poor.
(c) To learn about rural illnesses.
(d) He was ordered to work there by the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who set Maria up in her business?

2. With which of the following literary devices does Chapter 2 open?

3. What happened to Laurence's parents?

4. Why does Ngema tell Frank that Laurence cannot room with Tehogo?

5. What does Laurence profess to Frank at the end of Chapter 7?

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