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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator refuse to do?

2. Who does the narrator and her group meet on the way back to the car?

3. What does the narrator ask Vercueil to do to help with the pain?

4. What does the narrator tell the young boy to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What horrific scene do they encounter when they walk?

2. What does Mrs. Curren tell the police when under medication?

3. What does Mrs. Curren do when Mr. Vercueil is not looking?

4. What directions does Florence give to the narrator when they arrive in the township area at the start of Part Three, pg. 87-115?

5. What happens the morning the doorbell rings repeatedly?

6. What does the narrator explain over tea?

7. What happens to Mrs. Curren when she is lying down under an overpass?

8. What is the narrator told when she asks who is responsible?

9. What does the narrator recall about her daughter?

10. How is Mr. Vercueil different at the start of Part Three, pg. 115-147?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the correlation between Mrs. Curren's act of writing letters and her self preservation in the "Age of Iron".

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Florence's reaction to Mr. Vercueil and compare it with Mrs. Curren's reaction to him.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Coetzee chose to use first person and a narrator to tell the story in the "Age of Iron".

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