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

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

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

4. 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) Apartheid.
(c) Politics.
(d) The Afrikaners.

5. In "Village people," Bessie states that poverty in Africa is like a second skin and worn with what?
(a) Determined resignation.
(b) Benign acceptance.
(c) Weary effort.
(d) Unconscious dignity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?

2. Bessie Head was born in what year?

3. Why does Bessie believe that the artist Gladys Mgudlandlu is so successful?

4. In "Village people," Bessie states that African peace is what?

5. In 1963, what did Bessie encourage her readers to do?

(see the answer key)

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