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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. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?
(a) Government issued cash coupons.
(b) Education.
(c) Special travel privileges.
(d) Food coupons.

2. How do most black friends in South Africa meet?
(a) Bars.
(b) Political activism events.
(c) Church.
(d) Family and friends.

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

4. What is the meaning of "didactic" works?
(a) Historical, yet fiction.
(b) Geographical works.
(c) Pre-planned conclusions and principles.
(d) Dealing with African culture.

5. In Bessie's opinion, South African refugees are generally, what?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Fed up.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Bessie sent at age 13?

2. In her research for her novel, "Maru," Bessie worked right at the roots of what?

3. In "God and the underdog," what do the Ku Klux Klan members discover when they get to heaven?

4. What does the musician, Makeba, have a passion for?

5. What additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?

(see the answer key)

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