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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 additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?
(a) Her parents wanted her to leave the country.
(b) Her mother was insane.
(c) Her mother wanted nothing to do with her.
(d) Her mother was dying.

2. What animal was involved in the story that the American woman told Bessie regarding a vision?
(a) Cow.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Goat.
(d) Pig.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What startled Bessie in 1965?

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

3. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

4. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?

5. What months does it rain fiercely in Serowe?

(see the answer key)

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