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

3. 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.

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

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

6. In "The woman from America," who does Bessie say are always in the majority?
(a) Whites.
(b) Men.
(c) Those who fear.
(d) The impoverished.

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

8. In "Village people," Bessie states that poverty in Africa is like a second skin and worn with what?
(a) Unconscious dignity.
(b) Weary effort.
(c) Determined resignation.
(d) Benign acceptance.

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

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

11. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?
(a) Practice Christianity.
(b) Leave.
(c) Be controlled.
(d) Adhere to western culture.

12. What did Bessie have to start doing in 1966?
(a) See a psychiatrist.
(b) Report regularly to the police.
(c) Take medication.
(d) Get her manuscript censored.

13. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?
(a) Government issued cash coupons.
(b) Food coupons.
(c) Special travel privileges.
(d) Education.

14. Why did the American woman come to Africa?
(a) To get away from her family.
(b) Vacation.
(c) Research for a book.
(d) To be with her husband.

15. Bessie Head was born in what year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1938.