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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. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?
(a) They shall overcome.
(b) Their culture will survive.
(c) The rest of the world will save them.
(d) They are doomed.

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 protect you.
(c) They help you fight the white supremacy.
(d) They help you laugh.

3. What is the result of the casual sexual practices of the men of Botswana?
(a) Rise in alcoholism.
(b) High rate of illegitimate births.
(c) More poverty.
(d) AIDS epidemic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, Bessie states that the South African blacks have been stripped bare of what?

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

3. In 1963, what did Bessie encourage her readers to do?

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

5. What was the trend in Atteridgeville in 1964?

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