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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. What does Dr. Ngema tell Frank when he wakes up?

2. Which of the following is a reason for the awkwardness that exists in the relationship between Valerie and Frank?

3. When Frank is driving home what does he encounter?

4. Why does Frank go to Tehogo's room?

5. Who feels the most responsible for Tehogo's condition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Frank like Laurence was abducted?

4. What happens when Laurence returns from performing the abortion on Maria?

5. What does Frank ask Dr. Ngema about Tehogo and how does she react?

6. What does Dr. Ngema tell Frank about the clinic and how the Santanders feel?

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 Frank show that is uncharacteristically selfless of him?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways has Frank's life changed throughout the novel? Do you think it changed for the better or worse? Why do you think this way?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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