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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 additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?
(a) Her mother wanted nothing to do with her.
(b) Her mother was insane.
(c) Her mother was dying.
(d) Her parents wanted her to leave the country.

2. Bessie Head was born in what year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

3. What did their landlady do to Snowball despite Bessie's protests?
(a) Kicked him out.
(b) Made him clean.
(c) Cut his hair.
(d) Mistreated him.

4. In "The old woman," what is Bessie offered as thanks for feeding the woman?
(a) A pail of water.
(b) A meal.
(c) A chicken.
(d) Coins.

5. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?
(a) She is a westerner and not to be trusted.
(b) They have alot of money.
(c) They may be loyal to the Afrikaners.
(d) He loves her and is loyal to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The woman from America," what state in America is the woman from?

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

3. What did Bessie learn to hate?

4. Bessie feels that the South African blacks have a desperate longing to bring out their own what?

5. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?

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