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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. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?
(a) The children.
(b) The black people of Cape Town.
(c) The white people of Cape Town.
(d) The missionaries.

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

3. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?
(a) She had to leave the country.
(b) Her mother was white.
(c) Her father was a criminal.
(d) She was a ward of the state.

4. What does Bessie state that the South African blacks hoard?
(a) Coins.
(b) Little bits of things.
(c) Food.
(d) Children.

5. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?
(a) Creative and beautiful.
(b) Exciting and adventurous.
(c) Lazy and spoiled.
(d) Wealthy but caring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?

2. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

3. Bessie Head was born in what year?

4. In "Village people," Bessie states that poverty in Africa is like a second skin and worn with what?

5. What did Bessie's father take care of?

(see the answer key)

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