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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, In Exile, Botswana, 1964-1979, Preface, Sketches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Freedom to practice cultural traditions.
(c) Peace.
(d) Their dignity.

2. Bessie feels that the South African blacks have a desperate longing to bring out their own what?
(a) Innate abilities.
(b) Self-sufficiency.
(c) Pride.
(d) Creativeness.

3. 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) Good for the people.
(b) Sensible.
(c) Truthful.
(d) A trick.

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

5. Bessie states that "in her work" everyone has what?
(a) A right to speak.
(b) A place in her world.
(c) Equal representation.
(d) Their story told.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Snowball?

2. Bessie Head was born in what year?

3. In 1966, Bessie wrote that some people from the American State Department came to Botswana, but they couldn't talk about what?

4. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?

5. What community was Bessie in in "The Isolation of Boeta L"?

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