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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bessie state was totally absent in her?
(a) Sense of belonging.
(b) Political fervor.
(c) Sense of history.
(d) Empathy.

2. In "Makeba music," Bessie states that she believes in what?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Revolution.
(c) The contents of the human heart.
(d) Simplicity.

3. How did the British refer to Botswana in the early 1800's?
(a) Barren land of heathens.
(b) Desert full of blacks.
(c) God-awful country to live in.
(d) Hell on earth.

4. By the 1830's, most of the tribes of South Africa were what?
(a) Landless.
(b) Christians.
(c) Assimilated into other tribes.
(d) Extinct.

5. What special category did Bessie see her writing in?
(a) Blazing a new trail into the future.
(b) South African telling a South African story.
(c) Black woman with her own style.
(d) Sufferer exposing the truth.

6. In Chapter 2, what person made Bessie's natural hatred of the white man ebb?
(a) The American woman.
(b) Cambridge volunteer.
(c) A child.
(d) Pasternak.

7. What year was the old British Bechuanaland Protectorate established in Botswana?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1890.

8. Bessie's suffering in South Africa created in her a reverence for what?
(a) Ordinary people.
(b) Peace.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Innocence.

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

10. In Chapter 2, Bessie believes that God is embodied in whom?
(a) Her adoptive mother.
(b) The souls of all black Africans.
(c) The American woman.
(d) The children.

11. In "Makeba music," where would Russian people caught dealing in the black market be deported to?
(a) United States.
(b) Africa.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Israel.

12. In "A Question of Power," Bessie states that what can lead a people or a nation into a terrible abyss of destruction?
(a) Prejudice.
(b) Greed.
(c) Rage.
(d) Evil.

13. Why did Bessie say the South African experience so difficult for her to deal with in a creative sense?
(a) She had no family for support.
(b) She couldn't get past her own personal views.
(c) It was evil.
(d) She had too much inner turmoil.

14. Bessie views the author, Pasternak, as the liberator of what?
(a) Children.
(b) Passion.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Russia.

15. In old African custom, what were women forbidden to handle?
(a) Goats.
(b) Silk.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Despite broken bondage . . .," in the old days a woman was only regarded as sacred if she what?

2. Bessie describes Botswana men as what?

3. Who was the great leader of Botswana that protected it's people?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie believe that people cannot protest against?

5. In Chapter2, how does Bessie describe her third novel, "A Question of Power"?

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