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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, p. 35-56.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?
(a) To send Bheki's friend home.
(b) To prepare cocoa for everyone.
(c) To go rent a good movie.
(d) To go home.

2. What do new contacts allow the narrator to experience?
(a) The reality of life in an Empire.
(b) The reality of the Vichy regime.
(c) The reality of the Berlin wall.
(d) The reality of South African inequalities.

3. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?
(a) He leaves.
(b) He goes to the hospital.
(c) He stops drinking.
(d) He sleeps.

4. What does the narrator say about the media?
(a) They do not cover what happens in the townships.
(b) They only cover reality TV.
(c) They do not print the letter she sent them.
(d) They do not cover the last South African gold medalist at the Olympics.

5. What does the person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?
(a) Rent to recently released prisoners.
(b) Create a bed and breakfast.
(c) Take a second mortgage.
(d) Rent to students.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about charity not being appreciated?

2. When was the narrator's house burglarized?

3. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?

4. How does the narrator speak to the person that lives near her house?

5. What type of document introduces the "Age of Iron"?

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