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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Retrospect, Southern Africa and Beyond, 1979-1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What community was Bessie in in "The Isolation of Boeta L"?
(a) Serowe
(b) Atteridgeville
(c) Johannesburg
(d) Cape Town

2. In Chapter2, how does Bessie describe her third novel, "A Question of Power"?
(a) Difficult to write.
(b) A work of excruciating detail.
(c) Intensely personal and private.
(d) The most satisfying.

3. In "The woman from America," what state in America is the woman from?
(a) Washington.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Louisiana.

4. Bessie refers to her environment and historical circumstances as what?
(a) Howling inferno.
(b) The root of all evil.
(c) The cause her her instability.
(d) A shambles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What special category did Bessie see her writing in?

2. What does Bessie feel is the most important aspect to having friends in South Africa?

3. What animal was involved in the story that the American woman told Bessie regarding a vision?

4. Young Botswana writers complained to Bessie that they couldn't write a good novel there because of a lack of what?

5. What startled Bessie in 1965?

(see the answer key)

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