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

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

3. Bessie states that "in her work" everyone has what?
(a) A right to speak.
(b) A place in her world.
(c) Their story told.
(d) Equal representation.

4. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?
(a) The people's savior.
(b) The ample artist.
(c) The innocent escapist.
(d) The exuberant innocent.

5. What makes people suffer according to Bessie?
(a) People.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Fear.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Boeta L revert to when no one accepts his cause?

2. What was Bessie suffering from when she was trying to forge a friendship with the American woman?

3. What community was Bessie in in "The Isolation of Boeta L"?

4. In "chibuku beer and independence," Bessie states that if the government make a statement with no evil in it, then it may be what?

5. Bessie associates evil with what?

(see the answer key)

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