A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Bessie sent at age 13?
(a) Missionary orphanage.
(b) School.
(c) United States.
(d) Her grandparents home.

2. Bessie feels that the South African blacks have a desperate longing to bring out their own what?
(a) Self-sufficiency.
(b) Creativeness.
(c) Pride.
(d) Innate abilities.

3. What reminds Bessie of the man, Snowball?
(a) A herd of elephants.
(b) The tranquil waters.
(c) The sunset.
(d) A child she meets.

4. In 1966, Bessie wrote that some people from the American State Department came to Botswana, but they couldn't talk about what?
(a) Politics.
(b) The Afrikaners.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) African hunger.

5. What did Bessie's father take care of?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Fields.
(c) Landscape.
(d) Race horses.

6. What additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?
(a) Her mother was dying.
(b) Her mother was insane.
(c) Her parents wanted her to leave the country.
(d) Her mother wanted nothing to do with her.

7. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?
(a) Rhodesia.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) Johannesburg.
(d) Uganda.

8. What was the trend in Atteridgeville in 1964?
(a) Young people all leaving.
(b) Massive poverty.
(c) Having babies out of wedlock.
(d) Cultural indifference.

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

10. In Bessie's opinion, South African refugees are generally, what?
(a) Fed up.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Angry.

11. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?
(a) They may be loyal to the Afrikaners.
(b) She is a westerner and not to be trusted.
(c) He loves her and is loyal to her.
(d) They have alot of money.

12. In "The woman from America," who does Bessie say are always in the majority?
(a) Those who fear.
(b) The impoverished.
(c) Men.
(d) Whites.

13. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?
(a) Western and African cultures.
(b) Science and spiritualism.
(c) Blacks and whites.
(d) Christianity and Hinduism.

14. What race was Bessie's mother?
(a) Black.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Mulatto.
(d) White

15. What was Bessie's biggest frustration in "An Unspeakable Crime"?
(a) Violence was overtaking common sense.
(b) Blacks were just giving in to the white government.
(c) She couldn't get her stories published.
(d) She had no family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

2. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

3. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?

4. Who does Bessie think the Afrikaner race will one day emulate?

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

(see the answer keys)

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