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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. What did the American woman send Bessie?
(a) An invitation to her wedding.
(b) Happy little notes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A novel to read.

2. In "The woman from America," who does Bessie say are always in the majority?
(a) Men.
(b) Those who fear.
(c) Whites.
(d) The impoverished.

3. In 1966, Bessie wrote that some people from the American State Department came to Botswana, but they couldn't talk about what?
(a) African hunger.
(b) Politics.
(c) The Afrikaners.
(d) Apartheid.

4. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?
(a) White hair.
(b) White teeth.
(c) Pink soles of his feet.
(d) Red lips.

5. In "Village people," Bessie states that African peace is what?
(a) Deceptive.
(b) Non-existent.
(c) A one-sided truce.
(d) Only a dream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bessie learn to hate?

2. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?

3. Bessie says that the African people want to develop how?

4. In "The woman from America," what state in America is the woman from?

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

(see the answer key)

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