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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bessie says that the African people want to develop how?
(a) Industrially.
(b) Judiciously.
(c) Slowly.
(d) With pride.

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

3. In "Village people," Bessie states that poverty in Africa is like a second skin and worn with what?
(a) Weary effort.
(b) Unconscious dignity.
(c) Determined resignation.
(d) Benign acceptance.

4. According to Bessie, what do African people push aside?
(a) Hope.
(b) Assistance.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Intrusions.

5. What was Bessie forbidden to do on holidays?
(a) Visit friends.
(b) Pray.
(c) Visit her adoptive mother.
(d) Practice cultural customs.

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

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

8. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Be controlled.
(c) Practice Christianity.
(d) Adhere to western culture.

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

10. Who does Bessie think the Afrikaner race will one day emulate?
(a) Their ancestors.
(b) Adolph Hitler.
(c) The United States southern racists.
(d) England.

11. Bessie Head was born in what year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1937.

12. What did Bessie learn to hate?
(a) Judges.
(b) Christianity.
(c) The legal system.
(d) The social service system.

13. What does Bessie state that the South African blacks hoard?
(a) Children.
(b) Little bits of things.
(c) Food.
(d) Coins.

14. Why did the American woman come to Africa?
(a) To be with her husband.
(b) To get away from her family.
(c) Vacation.
(d) Research for a book.

15. What did Boeta L revert to when no one accepts his cause?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Madness.
(c) Drink.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What months does it rain fiercely in Serowe?

2. What startled Bessie in 1965?

3. Bessie feels that the South African blacks have a desperate longing to bring out their own what?

4. According to Bessie, what do the South African blacks possess that evens out all their downfalls?

5. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?

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