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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 have to start doing in 1966?
(a) Take medication.
(b) Get her manuscript censored.
(c) Report regularly to the police.
(d) See a psychiatrist.

2. How do most black friends in South Africa meet?
(a) Political activism events.
(b) Bars.
(c) Church.
(d) Family and friends.

3. What did the American woman send Bessie?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Happy little notes.
(c) An invitation to her wedding.
(d) A novel to read.

4. In 1966, Bessie wrote that some people from the American State Department came to Botswana, but they couldn't talk about what?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Politics.
(c) The Afrikaners.
(d) African hunger.

5. What months does it rain fiercely in Serowe?
(a) May, June, and July.
(b) March, April, and May.
(c) November, December, and January.
(d) August, September, and October.

Short Answer Questions

1. What race was Bessie's father?

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

3. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

4. In Serowe, what grazes the earth to a shred?

5. What does Bessie state that the South African blacks hoard?

(see the answer key)

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