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

2. Bessie Head was born in what year?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

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

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

5. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?
(a) She had to leave the country.
(b) She was a ward of the state.
(c) Her mother was white.
(d) Her father was a criminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raised Bessie?

2. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?

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

4. What was Bessie forbidden to do on holidays?

5. What race was Bessie's father?

(see the answer key)

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