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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, In Exile, Botswana, 1964-1979, Essays.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1975, Botswana had few what?
(a) Storms.
(b) White people.
(c) Animals.
(d) Rules.

2. What does Bessie feel is the most important aspect to having friends in South Africa?
(a) The connect you to the right people.
(b) They help you laugh.
(c) They protect you.
(d) They help you fight the white supremacy.

3. What did Bessie's father take care of?
(a) Fields.
(b) Landscape.
(c) Race horses.
(d) Gardens.

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

5. Bessie views the author, Pasternak, as the liberator of what?
(a) Children.
(b) Passion.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the basic landscape of Botswana?

2. Bessie Head was born in what year?

3. In "Despite broken bondage . . .," what does Bessie say the emancipation of women in Botswana was rooted in?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie feel that the African people need, for their civilization?

5. What months does it rain fiercely in Serowe?

(see the answer key)

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