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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, In Exile, Botswana, 1964-1979, Notes on Novels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter2, how does Bessie describe her third novel, "A Question of Power"?
(a) Difficult to write.
(b) A work of excruciating detail.
(c) The most satisfying.
(d) Intensely personal and private.

2. What people did the Bushmen resemble?
(a) Black Irish.
(b) White Afrikaners.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Black South Africans.

3. What was Bessie suffering from when she was trying to forge a friendship with the American woman?
(a) Mental troubles.
(b) Menopause.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) Gout.

4. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie say is the root of traditional African life?
(a) Work, rest and prayer.
(b) The land.
(c) Being at one with all things.
(d) Respecting your neighbor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?

2. What is a "bogadi," in African culture?

3. Bessie describes Botswana men as what?

4. Bessie states that Botswana men do not care about what?

5. In "Village people," Bessie states that African peace is what?

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