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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, p. 56-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents the narrator from going shopping in Part One?
(a) Her farorite soap opera has a marathon.
(b) Pain.
(c) Her can does not run.
(d) The rain.

2. What are the police doing as the narrator looks outside her window?
(a) Parking their car.
(b) Arresting a black woman.
(c) Following Bheki on his bike.
(d) Drawing their guns.

3. Who tries to intervene when Mr. Vercueil is being beaten?
(a) Concerned neighbors.
(b) Florence.
(c) The police.
(d) The narrator.

4. What was the narrator's profession before retiring?
(a) Housewife.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Dock worker.
(d) College professor.

5. What is Mr. Vercueil doing in the back yard that the housekeeper's daughters watch?
(a) Work on the lawn mower.
(b) Dig a hole.
(c) Ride a bicycle.
(d) Clean the pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man buy with the money he takes from the narrator?

2. Why isn't Bheki in school?

3. What does the narrator spend the day doing according to page 15?

4. What is the call the narrator receives while playing music about?

5. What is the name of the housekeeper's son?

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