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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. While Bessie ultimately abandoned Christianity, what part of it did she continue to embrace?
(a) Christ's teachings of love thy neighbor.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Baptism and communion.
(d) Community, not individual, worship.

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

3. In "The world of the intellect," Bessie says that she has always fought for what?
(a) Equality.
(b) Human dignity.
(c) Space and air.
(d) Women's rights.

4. In Bessie's opinion, South African refugees are generally, what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Angry.
(d) Fed up.

5. Bessie feels that the main function of a writer is to communicate what?
(a) A sense of wonder.
(b) One's passion.
(c) True life.
(d) Information.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "African religions," why did Bessie say that most of Asia was blanked out as barbaric in her school's geography book?

2. According to Bessie, every oppressed man has what?

3. Where was Bessie born?

4. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

5. Bessie feels that the South African people lack what?

(see the answer key)

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