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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. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?
(a) Lazy and spoiled.
(b) Exciting and adventurous.
(c) Creative and beautiful.
(d) Wealthy but caring.

2. What was Bessie suffering from when she was trying to forge a friendship with the American woman?
(a) Menopause.
(b) Mental troubles.
(c) Gout.
(d) Scarlet fever.

3. In "A Question of Power," Bessie states that what can lead a people or a nation into a terrible abyss of destruction?
(a) Rage.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Greed.
(d) Evil.

4. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?
(a) North Africa.
(b) United States.
(c) Asia.
(d) Europe.

5. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?
(a) She is a westerner and not to be trusted.
(b) They have alot of money.
(c) They may be loyal to the Afrikaners.
(d) He loves her and is loyal to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bessie, what do the South African blacks possess that evens out all their downfalls?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie believe that people cannot protest against?

3. What did the American woman send Bessie?

4. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?

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

(see the answer key)

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