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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. In Bessie's opinion, South African refugees are generally, what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Fed up.
(d) Angry.

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

3. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?
(a) Mud huts.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Animals.
(d) Beautiful landscapes.

4. According to Bessie, the South Africans have been living in exclusive compartments for so long that they are what?
(a) Doomed.
(b) Afraid of each other.
(c) An isolated people.
(d) Out of touch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?

2. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?

3. Bessie Head was born in what year?

4. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?

5. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?

(see the answer key)

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