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

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

3. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?
(a) Western and African cultures.
(b) Science and spiritualism.
(c) Blacks and whites.
(d) Christianity and Hinduism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bessie states that "in her work" everyone has what?

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

3. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?

4. Why did the American woman come to Africa?

5. What does Bessie call Southern Africa?

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