View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, In Exile, Botswana, 1964-1979, Notes on Novels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bessie define culture?
(a) The bareroots of a people.
(b) Where we all come from.
(c) The personality of a people.
(d) The core of people.

2. What makes people suffer according to Bessie?
(a) Fear.
(b) People.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Hatred.

3. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?
(a) Red lips.
(b) Pink soles of his feet.
(c) White hair.
(d) White teeth.

4. What startled Bessie in 1965?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) An arrest.
(c) The liberation of Africa.
(d) A letter from her father.

5. When did Bessie first get published?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?

2. In "chibuku beer and independence," Bessie states that if the government make a statement with no evil in it, then it may be what?

3. Which of Bessie's novels is the only one that truly reflects a black South African viewpoint?

4. What does Bessie state was totally absent in her?

5. In "Village people," what kind of porridge do they have for every meal?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 203 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample