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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. Where does Frank tell Zanele Laurence would have learned more about life?
(a) In the trenches.
(b) At an orphanage.
(c) Working in the city hospital.
(d) Doing community service.

2. Who is Colonel Moller?
(a) The soldier who made Frank examine the prisoner.
(b) The husband to Mama.
(c) The leader of the resistance.
(d) The head of the army training camps.

3. What does Dr. Ngema want from Laurence?
(a) She wants him to find patients.
(b) She wants him to replace Frank.
(c) She wants him to leave.
(d) She wants him to take her job.

4. How had the hospital begun?
(a) As a Christian missionary project.
(b) As a human services project.
(c) As a red cross mission.
(d) As a project of the first chief minister.

5. Who set Maria up in her business?
(a) Her friend.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the story as it opens?

2. What does Raymond tell Frank about Tehogo?

3. How long had Dr. Ngema been at the hospital when Frank arrived?

4. How does Frank describe his relationship with Maria?

5. Which of the following is the best description of breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Frank keep from Laurence and how does he react to it?

3. What confuses Laurence about the hospital?

4. What does Frank find when he goes for his own walk?

5. How did Frank come to become a doctor?

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

7. What does Laurence invite Frank to do and how does he prepare?

8. How does Ngema respond to Laurence and how does this affect Laurence?

9. What does Frank offer to do so that Laurence and Zanele can be alone together and how does Laurence respond?

10. What happens when Frank suggests they stop and eat after swimming and what new information does Laurence reveal about their mission?

(see the answer keys)

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