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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 does Hortensia reveal caused her to slap Marion?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Boredom.

2. Where do Hortensia and Marion reconcile?
(a) The Guest House.
(b) Agnes's apartment.
(c) The hospital cafeteria.
(d) The Koppie.

3. What was Alberta's real name?
(a) Bertha.
(b) Hortensia.
(c) Bathandwa.
(d) Sarah.

4. How does Hortensia feel after witnessing Peter with another woman?
(a) Hateful.
(b) Sorrowful.
(c) In love.
(d) Peaceful.

5. How do Hortensia and Marion get to Agnes’s home in Cape Town?
(a) Marion drives them.
(b) They take a cab.
(c) They take the bus.
(d) Bassey drives them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hortensia tell Marion to do with the photograph of her and Peter?

2. What event takes place at the beginning of Chapter Seventeen?

3. What does the photograph of Hortensia and Peter represent?

4. How does Marion feel about Alberta’s story in retrospect?

5. Why does fighting with Marion make Hortensia feel at home again?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter Sixteen show Hortensia develop?

2. How does Agnes ultimately feel about Marion?

3. Why does Hortensia feel “at home again” after she and Marion fight?

4. Why does Hortensia mock Marion’s attraction to Frikkie?

5. How does Chapter Sixteen show Marion develop?

6. How does Hortensia ultimately feel about marriage?

7. What does Agnes reveal about the painting?

8. How does architecture tie into Marion’s racism?

9. Why is Marion surprised by Hortensia’s interaction with Innes?

10. Why does Marion share the story about Alberta?

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