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

2. In "A Question of Power," Bessie states that what can lead a people or a nation into a terrible abyss of destruction?
(a) Evil.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Greed.
(d) Rage.

3. In "Notes on novels," how is pre-colonial invasion South Africa described?
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Backward.

4. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?
(a) Their dignity.
(b) Their lives.
(c) Freedom to practice cultural traditions.
(d) Peace.

5. Bessie states that she needs to feel like she's treading what?
(a) Lightly.
(b) Water.
(c) Firmly but solidly, through life.
(d) A small, careful pathway through life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bessie states that Botswana men do not care about what?

2. How did Bessie define culture?

3. What happened to Snowball?

4. Why did Bessie say the South African experience so difficult for her to deal with in a creative sense?

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

(see the answer key)

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