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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bessie create in Botswana?
(a) A published manuscript.
(b) A new family.
(c) Her ideal life.
(d) A large garden.

2. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?
(a) Western and African cultures.
(b) Christianity and Hinduism.
(c) Science and spiritualism.
(d) Blacks and whites.

3. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?
(a) The exuberant innocent.
(b) The innocent escapist.
(c) The people's savior.
(d) The ample artist.

4. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her adoptive mother.
(d) Her real mother.

5. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?
(a) White teeth.
(b) Pink soles of his feet.
(c) Red lips.
(d) White hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?

2. What did Bessie learn to hate?

3. In "chibuku beer and independence," Bessie states that if the government make a statement with no evil in it, then it may be what?

4. According to Bessie, the South Africans have been living in exclusive compartments for so long that they are what?

5. What did Bessie have to start doing in 1966?

(see the answer key)

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