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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter2, how does Bessie describe her third novel, "A Question of Power"?
(a) Intensely personal and private.
(b) The most satisfying.
(c) A work of excruciating detail.
(d) Difficult to write.

2. Bessie states that Botswana men do not care about what?
(a) Work.
(b) Their pride.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their wives.

3. In 1963, what did Bessie encourage her readers to do?
(a) Love their neighbor.
(b) Fight against the status quo.
(c) Look to God to save them.
(d) Flee.

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

5. How many cattle died in the major drought in Botswana?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 500,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the only industry that the British used Botswana for?

3. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?

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

5. Why did Bessie say the South African experience so difficult for her to deal with in a creative sense?

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