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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. What was Bessie forbidden to do on holidays?
(a) Visit friends.
(b) Visit her adoptive mother.
(c) Practice cultural customs.
(d) Pray.

2. What race was Bessie's mother?
(a) Black.
(b) White
(c) Chinese.
(d) Mulatto.

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

4. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?
(a) The white people of Cape Town.
(b) The black people of Cape Town.
(c) The missionaries.
(d) The children.

5. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?
(a) Western and African cultures.
(b) Science and spiritualism.
(c) Christianity and Hinduism.
(d) Blacks and whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

2. Who raised Bessie?

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

4. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?

5. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?

(see the answer key)

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