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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. The nurses at the hospital ___________ to let Michael K stay with his mother overnight in the ward.
(a) Were willing.
(b) Decided.
(c) Thought.
(d) Would not willing.

2. Who told Michael K's mother that his lip would improve and close up over time?
(a) Her doctor.
(b) His father.
(c) His aunt.
(d) The midwife.

3. What was Michael K's first job once he left school and decided to find a reasonable job?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Servant.
(c) Trainer.
(d) Gardener.

4. Where did K decide that he and his mother should travel in order to be more successful with their journey?
(a) The main roads.
(b) The side roads.
(c) The military trucks.
(d) A tunnel.

5. After the accident, it seems that travel was restricted to the ___________ by the order of the police and government.
(a) Outlying areas.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Library.
(d) Shore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anna K had worked as a ________ for eight years when she was in Sea Point, which was a suburb.

2. What did Michael K refuse to do when he found out that his mother had died in the hospital?

3. What did Michael K decide to abandon after his encounter with the soldier who took from him?

4. Why is Michael K unable to procure a ticket to get him and his mother to another city?

5. Where did Michael K and his mother sleep when he began to realize it might take days for them to reach Prince Albert?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was one of the terrible things the hospital did not do when they released K's mother?

2. Why did K enjoy working in solitude during his time with the parks and garden department?

3. Why didn't K mind the extra burden of taking care of his mother when she was in failing health?

4. What happened because Michael K was judged to be not smart enough for regular school?

5. What kind of deformity was Michael K born with which repulses his mother when she looks at him?

6. What did K have to fend off in the morning after he and his mother spent the night sleeping in some undergrowth?

7. What did Michael K's deformity cause him trouble with when he was just a baby?

8. What kind of job did K get when he left school at the age of 15 in the book?

9. What did K tell Visagie's grandson when he arrived at the farmhouse unexpectedly where K was staying?

10. What happened one day at the Buhrmann's apartment while Anna and K were trying to live there?

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