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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 does Bessie feel is the most important aspect to having friends in South Africa?
(a) They protect you.
(b) They help you laugh.
(c) The connect you to the right people.
(d) They help you fight the white supremacy.

2. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?
(a) United States.
(b) Asia.
(c) North Africa.
(d) Europe.

3. What was Bessie's biggest frustration in "An Unspeakable Crime"?
(a) Violence was overtaking common sense.
(b) She had no family.
(c) She couldn't get her stories published.
(d) Blacks were just giving in to the white government.

4. Who raised Bessie?
(a) Her mother's maid.
(b) Her father's parents.
(c) Her mother's sister.
(d) A black foster mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do most black friends in South Africa meet?

2. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

3. What startled Bessie in 1965?

4. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?

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

(see the answer key)

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