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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Bessie, the South Africans have been living in exclusive compartments for so long that they are what?
(a) Afraid of each other.
(b) Out of touch.
(c) Doomed.
(d) An isolated people.

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

5. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?
(a) Their dignity.
(b) Their lives.
(c) Peace.
(d) Freedom to practice cultural traditions.

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

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

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

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

10. What was Bessie's biggest frustration in "An Unspeakable Crime"?
(a) Blacks were just giving in to the white government.
(b) She couldn't get her stories published.
(c) Violence was overtaking common sense.
(d) She had no family.

11. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?
(a) Europe.
(b) North Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) United States.

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

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

14. According to Bessie, what do African people push aside?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Intrusions.
(c) Hope.
(d) Assistance.

15. In 1975, Botswana had few what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Storms.
(c) Rules.
(d) White people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Bessie sent at age 13?

2. What race was Bessie's mother?

3. In 1965, what did Bessie write that the people of South Africa need to find in order to live together?

4. In 1963, what did Bessie encourage her readers to do?

5. Why did the American woman come to Africa?

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