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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. What people did the Bushmen resemble?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Black Irish.
(c) Black South Africans.
(d) White Afrikaners.

2. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?
(a) The white people of Cape Town.
(b) The missionaries.
(c) The children.
(d) The black people of Cape Town.

3. Bessie feels that the South African people lack what?
(a) Pride.
(b) Determination.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Dignity.

4. In her research for her novel, "Maru," Bessie worked right at the roots of what?
(a) Racial hatred.
(b) South African cultural diversity.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Oppression.

5. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?
(a) Freedom to practice cultural traditions.
(b) Peace.
(c) Their lives.
(d) Their dignity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Snowball?

2. What does the musician, Makeba, have a passion for?

3. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?

4. In old African custom, what were women forbidden to handle?

5. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?

(see the answer key)

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