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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bessie believe that the artist Gladys Mgudlandlu is so successful?
(a) Her art subjects are all local.
(b) Her "escapism" style appeals to oppressed people.
(c) She is very vocal about oppression.
(d) Her art sales benefit the community.

2. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?
(a) White hair.
(b) Pink soles of his feet.
(c) Red lips.
(d) White teeth.

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

4. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?
(a) The innocent escapist.
(b) The ample artist.
(c) The people's savior.
(d) The exuberant innocent.

5. In "The woman from America," what state in America is the woman from?
(a) New York.
(b) Washington.
(c) California.
(d) Louisiana.

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

7. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her adoptive mother.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her real mother.

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

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

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

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

12. According to Bessie, what do the South African blacks possess that evens out all their downfalls?
(a) Innocent simplicity.
(b) Deep respect for the culture.
(c) Fire within.
(d) Love and warmth.

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

14. What community was Bessie in in "The Isolation of Boeta L"?
(a) Atteridgeville
(b) Serowe
(c) Johannesburg
(d) Cape Town

15. In 1966, Bessie wrote that some people from the American State Department came to Botswana, but they couldn't talk about what?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Politics.
(c) African hunger.
(d) The Afrikaners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?

2. In "The old woman," what is Bessie offered as thanks for feeding the woman?

3. Who raised Bessie?

4. Bessie feels that the South African people lack what?

5. What did the American woman send Bessie?

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