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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the village of Tsau located?

2. What does Nelson drink with Harold?

3. What does the group chant to convince Nelson they need guns in the village?

4. What glass did Nelson use to create his childhood sculpture?

5. What omen does the village receive on the night the narrator moves into Nelson's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the scheduled debate over God bother the narrator so much? How does Nelson feel?

2. How does the village react to Nelson and the narrator becoming a couple? What happens that night?

3. What honor does the narrator receive in Tsau? How does she feel about what she's been asked to do?

4. What happens when the narrator invites Harold and Julia to their home for dinner?

5. What shift occurs during the debate over God? Why does this happen?

6. Why does the narrator leave the villager's presentation of Lamentations of Women?

7. Describe two of the political happenings in Chapter Six. What is their significance?

8. How are children born in Tsau? How does the narrator react to the birthing process?

9. Why are the villagers against hand washing and sanitation?

10. What does the narrator do the first time Nelson invites her to his house? Is this unexpected?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The relationship between blacks and whites in Africa has changed throughout history. Research the history of the Botswana area and create a time line of facts, changes, and political movements. Explain how the history of the area is important to the racial climate in the story, the characters' actions, and how it impacts the relationships in the story.

Essay Topic 2

The reader sees increasingly Nelson Denoon's need and desire to pull away from the governing of Tsau, but he is unable to do so. Explain three examples the author gives of this dilemma. Why does this dilemma exist?

Essay Topic 3

Tsau is a complicated social experiment unlike any other in Africa at the time. From what we've learned in the book, describe the advantages and downfalls of such an experiment. Based on the political and social environment in Africa during the setting of this story, does an experiment such as this seem feasible?

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