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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. Why does Hortensia ultimately never confront Peter about the affair?
(a) She has an affair of her own.
(b) She chooses to focus on other things.
(c) She thinks he would become violent.
(d) She believes he ended the affair.

2. What does Beulah reveal to Marion?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is getting married.
(c) Her family wishes to make a donation to Marion.
(d) Her grandmother was related to Hortensia.

3. What does Marion suggest is the reason Hortensia could never become pregnant?
(a) The stress of living in Katterijn.
(b) A medical anomaly.
(c) Hortensia was not supposed to become a mother.
(d) The presence of Beulah Gierdien's ancestors.

4. What does Bassey reveal has happened to Agnes?
(a) She broke up with her boyfriend.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She has cancer.
(d) She has tuberculosis.

5. Why is Marion disappointed that Hortensia does not want to respond to Beulah Gierdien’s letter?
(a) She thinks the Gierdien family will help her with her bankruptcy.
(b) She thinks Hortensia secretly wants to help.
(c) She feels she would have done the same thing.
(d) She thinks Hortensia is being unreasonable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Innes's mother?

2. Why did Peter’s parents disapprove of their son’s marriage?

3. How much did the Von Struikers initially purchase their land for?

4. What did Marion’s teacher likely mean when she said that students need to learn “real” history?

5. How do Hortensia and Marion get to Agnes’s home in Cape Town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What motivates Hortensia to contact Esme?

2. How does Agnes ultimately feel about Marion?

3. Why does Hortensia slap Marion?

4. Why does Marion share the story about Alberta?

5. Why is the fact that Hortensia had an abortion significant?

6. How do Hortensia and Marion’s perspectives on housekeepers differ?

7. What is the arrangement when Marion moves into Hortensia’s house?

8. Why might Aggie have said “There’s blood here, Marion” (169)?

9. How does Marion feel about the torture schematics she finds at the library?

10. Why did Hortensia never confront Peter about the affair?

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