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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. In "chibuku beer and independence," Bessie states that if the government make a statement with no evil in it, then it may be what?
(a) Sensible.
(b) Truthful.
(c) A trick.
(d) Good for the people.

2. What does Bessie feel is the most important aspect to having friends in South Africa?
(a) They protect you.
(b) They help you laugh.
(c) They help you fight the white supremacy.
(d) The connect you to the right people.

3. Bessie views the author, Pasternak, as the liberator of what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Children.
(c) Passion.
(d) Russia.

4. In Chapter 2, Bessie believes that God is embodied in whom?
(a) Her adoptive mother.
(b) The American woman.
(c) The souls of all black Africans.
(d) The children.

5. In her research for her novel, "Maru," Bessie worked right at the roots of what?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Racial hatred.
(c) Christianity.
(d) South African cultural diversity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Snowball?

2. What race was Bessie's father?

3. Why does Bessie believe that the artist Gladys Mgudlandlu is so successful?

4. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?

5. What makes people suffer according to Bessie?

(see the answer key)

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