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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Retrospect, Southern Africa and Beyond, 1979-1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bessie suffering from when she was trying to forge a friendship with the American woman?
(a) Menopause.
(b) Scarlet fever.
(c) Gout.
(d) Mental troubles.

2. How many major tribes are there in Botswana?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

3. According to Bessie, the South Africans have been living in exclusive compartments for so long that they are what?
(a) Afraid of each other.
(b) Out of touch.
(c) An isolated people.
(d) Doomed.

4. What did Bessie have to start doing in 1966?
(a) Get her manuscript censored.
(b) See a psychiatrist.
(c) Report regularly to the police.
(d) Take medication.

5. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie state is responsible for the elimination of polygamy in Botswana?
(a) Women's movement.
(b) Education.
(c) New laws.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?

2. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?

3. What is the cooking pot in South Africa called?

4. In "Notes from a quiet backwater II," Bessie says that people need to have a sense of what?

5. Who were the new intellectual "elite" blacks trained by?

(see the answer key)

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