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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 race was Bessie's father?
(a) Mulatto.
(b) Black.
(c) Chinese.
(d) White.

2. What race was Bessie's mother?
(a) Mulatto.
(b) White
(c) Black.
(d) Chinese.

3. In "The woman from America," what state in America is the woman from?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Washington.
(c) New York.
(d) California.

4. What community was Bessie in in "The Isolation of Boeta L"?
(a) Johannesburg
(b) Serowe
(c) Atteridgeville
(d) Cape Town

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

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

3. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?

4. Who raised Bessie?

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

(see the answer key)

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