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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. Which word best describes how Frank feels after he finishes talking to Karen?

2. What does Laurence invite Frank to do with him?

3. How does Dr. Ngema act when Frank confronts her about Tehogo?

4. What does Frank want Dr. Ngema to do that she refuses to do?

5. Why does Ngema ask Frank to keep an eye on Laurence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frank find when he goes back to Maria's village to ask about her and her shack?

2. What does Laurence offer to tell Dr. Ngema for Frank and how does Frank react?

3. What does Frank notice about Maria and what happens when he asks her about it?

4. What happens when Frank asks the Colonel about Maria and Tehogo's fates?

5. Why does Frank drive out to the army camp?

6. Why does Frank decide not to go to the clinic and what happens between he and Tehogo?

7. What does the reader learn that happened in town and what does this event make Frank think about in regard to Maria or the Brigadier's?

8. What does Dr. Ngema tell Frank about how she got Laurence to agree not to pursue charges about Tehogo?

9. What does Karen tell Frank when he calls her just to hear her voice?

10. Describe Frank's father and how Frank feels about his father.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Frank feels responsible for Tehogo's condition and what happened to Laurence? Do you think he is responsible? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Frank told the Colonel that he had helped him earlier at the end of the novel? Do you think this was an appropriate action? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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