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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 Florence bring Bheki back to the house?
(a) Her son could be fined.
(b) She does not have insurance.
(c) She does not want to be involved with the police.
(d) She is sought by police.

2. Where is Bheki's friend kept?
(a) In a cell at the local prison.
(b) In the waiting room of the hospital.
(c) In the psychiatric wing of the hospital.
(d) In a room full of older men.

3. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the little girls?
(a) Wets them with a hose.
(b) Yells at them.
(c) Tells them to go away.
(d) Plays with them.

4. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?
(a) The graffiti left on her sofa.
(b) The burglars where white.
(c) Stealing her piano.
(d) The vandalism.

5. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.
(b) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.
(c) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.
(d) Because he wants to join the army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?

2. What prevents the narrator from going shopping in Part One?

3. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?

4. What is the name of the homeless man?

5. What does the narrator say to the housekeeper that one day will hurt everybody?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the police do to Bheki and his friend?

2. What did the narrator do to ease her pain at the end of Part One, p. 3-15?

3. Who returns with her two young daughters and teenage son in Part Two, pgs. 35-56?

4. What did Mr. Vercueil do with more access to money?

5. What does the homeless men decline after answering questions about his birthplace?

6. What does the narrator tell the homeless man stories about on the trip into town?

7. What does Bheki inform the narrator of regarding the police and not being in school?

8. What did Bheki and another teenage boy do?

9. What does the homeless man do when the narrator brings him coffee?

10. Who does the narrator reveal she is speaking to according to Part One, pg. 3-15?

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