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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?
(a) Lazy and spoiled.
(b) Creative and beautiful.
(c) Exciting and adventurous.
(d) Wealthy but caring.

2. What did Boeta L revert to when no one accepts his cause?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Drink.
(c) Madness.
(d) Religion.

3. What additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?
(a) Her parents wanted her to leave the country.
(b) Her mother was insane.
(c) Her mother wanted nothing to do with her.
(d) Her mother was dying.

4. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?
(a) The black people of Cape Town.
(b) The children.
(c) The white people of Cape Town.
(d) The missionaries.

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

6. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Aloof.
(c) Intimidating.
(d) Cruel.

7. What does Bessie state that the South African blacks hoard?
(a) Children.
(b) Food.
(c) Coins.
(d) Little bits of things.

8. Where was Bessie born?
(a) The horse stables.
(b) Medical hospital.
(c) Her mother's home.
(d) In a mental hospital.

9. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?
(a) She was a ward of the state.
(b) She had to leave the country.
(c) Her father was a criminal.
(d) Her mother was white.

10. How did Bessie define culture?
(a) Where we all come from.
(b) The bareroots of a people.
(c) The core of people.
(d) The personality of a people.

11. Who does Bessie think the Afrikaner race will one day emulate?
(a) Their ancestors.
(b) England.
(c) The United States southern racists.
(d) Adolph Hitler.

12. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?
(a) Christianity and Hinduism.
(b) Blacks and whites.
(c) Science and spiritualism.
(d) Western and African cultures.

13. How do most black friends in South Africa meet?
(a) Family and friends.
(b) Church.
(c) Bars.
(d) Political activism events.

14. In "The woman from America," what about this woman and her husband poses the biggest threat to the village people?
(a) She is a westerner and not to be trusted.
(b) He loves her and is loyal to her.
(c) They have alot of money.
(d) They may be loyal to the Afrikaners.

15. What months does it rain fiercely in Serowe?
(a) May, June, and July.
(b) March, April, and May.
(c) November, December, and January.
(d) August, September, and October.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bessie, what do African people push aside?

2. According to Bessie, the South Africans have been living in exclusive compartments for so long that they are what?

3. In "chibuku beer and independence," Bessie states that if the government make a statement with no evil in it, then it may be what?

4. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?

5. What does Bessie enjoy that she feels South Africa denied her?

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