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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. Bessie feels that the South African people lack what?
(a) Pride.
(b) Dignity.
(c) Determination.
(d) Innovation.

2. What year was the old British Bechuanaland Protectorate established in Botswana?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1901.

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

4. Bessie states that one day all nations shall dwell under what shadow?
(a) Peace.
(b) Total equality.
(c) The Pharaoh's.
(d) Global civilization.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Despite broken bondage . . .," in the old days a woman was only regarded as sacred if she what?

3. Bessie's suffering in South Africa created in her a reverence for what?

4. In 1975, Botswana had few what?

5. In "African religions," why did Bessie say that most of Asia was blanked out as barbaric in her school's geography book?

(see the answer key)

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