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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 Bessie enjoy that she feels South Africa denied her?
(a) Safety.
(b) Educational opportunities.
(c) Free expression.
(d) Repetition and simplicity in life.

2. What is the basic landscape of Botswana?
(a) Semi-desert.
(b) Tropical.
(c) Woodland.
(d) Desert.

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

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

5. What happened to Snowball?
(a) He got into a bar fight.
(b) His dinghy collapsed.
(c) He got thrown into jail for being subversive.
(d) He left town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the American woman come to Africa?

2. According to Bessie, the South Africans have been living in exclusive compartments for so long that they are what?

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

4. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?

5. In Serowe, what grazes the earth to a shred?

(see the answer key)

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