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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 did the American woman send Bessie?
(a) Happy little notes.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A novel to read.
(d) An invitation to her wedding.

2. Bessie views the author, Pasternak, as the liberator of what?
(a) Russia.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Children.
(d) Passion.

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

4. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie state is responsible for the elimination of polygamy in Botswana?
(a) New laws.
(b) Women's movement.
(c) Education.
(d) Christianity.

5. Who raised Bessie?
(a) Her father's parents.
(b) A black foster mother.
(c) Her mother's maid.
(d) Her mother's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Bessie's novels is the only one that truly reflects a black South African viewpoint?

2. What kind of large mine was discovered in Africa after independence?

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

4. Bessie had stories to tell but couldn't write them. Why?

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

(see the answer key)

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