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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Retrospect, Southern Africa and Beyond, 1979-1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What animal was involved in the story that the American woman told Bessie regarding a vision?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Cow.
(c) Goat.
(d) Pig.

4. Bessie states that she lived with a broken sense of what?
(a) Pride.
(b) Self.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) History.

5. In Chapter 2, what person made Bessie's natural hatred of the white man ebb?
(a) Pasternak.
(b) Cambridge volunteer.
(c) A child.
(d) The American woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special category did Bessie see her writing in?

2. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

3. What did the American woman send Bessie?

4. In "Notes from a quiet backwater II," Bessie says that people need to have a sense of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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