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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vercueil do instead of what the narrator asked?
(a) He brings the radio in the bathroom.
(b) He brings the TV in the bedroom.
(c) He goes and gets the dog.
(d) He cleans the pool himself.

2. What does the narrator hope her daughter will do after the letters stop?
(a) Give Vercueil some money.
(b) Think kindly of Mr Vercueil.
(c) Help fight apartheid.
(d) Give the house to Vercueil.

3. Where does Vercueil bring the narrator?
(a) To the airport.
(b) To scenic spots.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To the township.

4. Who does the narrator reach on the phone?
(a) Florence.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Mr. Thabane.
(d) Florence's mother.

5. What does the narrator see being taken in an ambulance?
(a) John's body.
(b) A police officer.
(c) Mr. Vercueil's body.
(d) A negotiator's body.

6. What does the narrator tell the young boy to do?
(a) To leave by the back door.
(b) To go back to school.
(c) To stay the night.
(d) To turn himself in.

7. What did the narrator's daughter tell her as she was leaving South Africa.
(a) That she would never return.
(b) That she never want to see her again.
(c) That she would return every year.
(d) That she would send her money to bring her to the U.S.

8. What is Vercueil curious about?
(a) Why she chose him.
(b) How much money the narrator will leave him.
(c) What her daughter's name is.
(d) What subjects the narrator taught.

9. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to do to help with the pain?
(a) Get her marijuana.
(b) Give her a bath.
(c) Get her more medicine.
(d) Let the dog sleep with her.

10. What do the officers prevent the narrator from doing?
(a) Getting in the ambulance with John.
(b) Going upstairs.
(c) Following the ambulance with her car.
(d) Leaving the house.

11. What does Florence learn late at night in Part Three?
(a) Her insurance does not cover bullet wounds.
(b) Her husband was arrested.
(c) Bheki is in trouble.
(d) Lawyers are expensive.

12. Where are the police officers the narrator talks with?
(a) Outside her yard.
(b) At the police station.
(c) Outside her kitchen.
(d) Near her pool.

13. What does Vercueil do while the national anthem plays on the TV?
(a) He changes channels.
(b) He turns the TV off.
(c) He plug his ears and say "LLALALALALALALA."
(d) He dances.

14. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the keys of the car?
(a) Throws them in the water.
(b) Throws them over a cliff.
(c) Puts them in his pocket.
(d) Throws them in the bushes.

15. What does the police tell the narrator?
(a) That she can only continue on foot.
(b) That she is not allowed to pass.
(c) That she must submit to a body scanner.
(d) That she must pay a fee to enter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vercueil go into the store?

2. Where is the narrator put after she tells the one trying to get her out of her house that she has cancer?

3. What does the narrator feel towards the boy?

4. What does the narrator say she would want to know when Vercueil asks about the dream?

5. What does the narrator's medications cause?

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