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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 people did the Bushmen resemble?
(a) Black South Africans.
(b) Black Irish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) White Afrikaners.

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

3. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?
(a) Beautiful landscapes.
(b) Mud huts.
(c) Animals.
(d) Dreams.

4. What did Bessie learn to hate?
(a) The social service system.
(b) Judges.
(c) The legal system.
(d) Christianity.

5. Bessie feels that the main function of a writer is to communicate what?
(a) True life.
(b) One's passion.
(c) A sense of wonder.
(d) Information.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bessie think the Afrikaner race will one day emulate?

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

3. What does Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?

4. According to an account by Dr. W.H.C. Lichtenstein, Botswana men only do work that can be what?

5. In "Notes on novels," how is pre-colonial invasion South Africa described?

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