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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. What does Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Mental instability.
(c) Fellow refugees.
(d) How she grew up.

2. In old African custom, what were women forbidden to handle?
(a) Goats.
(b) Ivory.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Silk.

3. In "God and the underdog," Bessie states that there is nothing that moves her more deeply than what?
(a) The history of the Jews.
(b) The emancipation of African blacks.
(c) Children with no future.
(d) Poverty.

4. In African culture, what can't a woman do to their husband?
(a) Lodge complaints against them.
(b) Berate them.
(c) Divorce them.
(d) Strike them.

5. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Adhere to western culture.
(c) Be controlled.
(d) Practice Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bessie call Southern Africa?

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

4. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

5. In "chibuku beer and independence," Bessie states that if the government make a statement with no evil in it, then it may be what?

(see the answer key)

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