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

2. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?
(a) Practice Christianity.
(b) Leave.
(c) Adhere to western culture.
(d) Be controlled.

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

4. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her adoptive mother.
(d) Her real mother.

5. Bessie had stories to tell but couldn't write them. Why?
(a) She got angry over issues and her ideas died away.
(b) People ridiculed her.
(c) No one was interested in them.
(d) She panicked and felt dead inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

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

3. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?

4. What did Bessie learn to hate?

5. How do most black friends in South Africa meet?

(see the answer key)

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