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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Bessie born?
(a) Medical hospital.
(b) Her mother's home.
(c) The horse stables.
(d) In a mental hospital.

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

4. How did Bessie define culture?
(a) The core of people.
(b) Where we all come from.
(c) The bareroots of a people.
(d) The personality of a people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?

2. In "The old woman," what is Bessie offered as thanks for feeding the woman?

3. In "The woman from America," who does Bessie say are always in the majority?

4. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bessie describe the Botswana flag to students during the independence celebration?

2. Why is Bessie so drawn to the American woman in "Woman from America"?

3. Why did Bessie keep all the notes that the American woman gave her?

4. In "An Unspeakable Crime," why does Bessie feel discouraged by the South African blacks?

5. Why was Bessie given up for adoption?

6. Why is there no rage and oppression in Botswana?

7. Why do the South African blacks relate to the artist, Gladys Mgudlandlu?

8. How does Bessie describe Botswana in 1964?

9. What does Bessie say about refugees and friendship in "Letter from South Africa"?

10. In 1982, Bessie writes about her reaction when people discussed her writing. Why did she get so frustrated?

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