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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Beginnings, South Africa, 1937-1964.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Bessie born?
(a) The horse stables.
(b) In a mental hospital.
(c) Her mother's home.
(d) Medical hospital.

2. Where was Bessie sent at age 13?
(a) Her grandparents home.
(b) United States.
(c) Missionary orphanage.
(d) School.

3. What was the trend in Atteridgeville in 1964?
(a) Massive poverty.
(b) Having babies out of wedlock.
(c) Cultural indifference.
(d) Young people all leaving.

4. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?
(a) They shall overcome.
(b) The rest of the world will save them.
(c) They are doomed.
(d) Their culture will survive.

5. How did Bessie define culture?
(a) The core of people.
(b) The bareroots of a people.
(c) Where we all come from.
(d) The personality of a people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bessie forbidden to do on holidays?

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

3. What additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?

4. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?

5. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?

(see the answer key)

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