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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many patients do the doctors visit on rounds?

2. How does Frank describe his relationship with Maria?

3. How long would it be until the trial clinic would be held?

4. How does Laurence feel about Frank's attitude regarding Laurence's ideas about the village?

5. How does Laurence feel about looting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What confuses Laurence about the hospital?

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

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

4. How did Frank come to become a doctor?

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

6. What did Laurence insist was the real reason that Frank became a doctor?

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

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

9. How is Frank physically and emotionally at the end of Chapter 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way did the character of Laurence change throughout the novel? Do you think his changes were for the positive or negative? Why do you think that way?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think that Frank's guilt throughout the story is well deserved? Why do you think that? Would you have acted the same way as Frank did? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Frank so often tries to get the Colonel to tell him information about events that happened in the story? Do you think this was a good plan? Why or why not?

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