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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to all of the contents of the Brigadier's house?
(a) It is sitting outside on the lawn.
(b) It has been moved to storage.
(c) It was taken away in three trucks.
(d) It is all crammed into one locked room.

2. Which character does Frank suggest Laurence room with instead of him?
(a) Santaders.
(b) Tehogo.
(c) Waters.
(d) Negema.

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

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

5. What was Frank's only encounter with the Brigadier?
(a) He met him in the army.
(b) He came to the hospital with chest pains.
(c) He was at the hospital when he came in and destroyed many of the rooms.
(d) He saw him once eating in Mama's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Frank after he told the Commandant that the prisoner would not die yet?

2. How does Frank feel about Laurence's idea about the village?

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

4. How had the hospital begun?

5. How did the bureaucrats describe the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Frank mention the patients condition and how does Laurence respond?

2. What happens the next time Maria and Frank are together after she warned Frank not to come because her husband would be in town?

3. How did Frank come to be stuck at the hospital?

4. What does the hospital have in abundance and what types of things do they have too little of?

5. What is one thing Laurence does to help to improve the appearance of the grounds of the hospital?

6. What information about Laurence does Zanele correct while she is talking to Frank?

7. What information about herself does Zanele share with Frank?

8. What happens on Laurence's first morning and how is he feeling?

9. Why does Laurence say was the reason he came to the hospital?

10. How did Frank's feelings about sharing his room change throughout Chapter 1?

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