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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In "The old woman," what is Bessie offered as thanks for feeding the woman?
(a) A chicken.
(b) Coins.
(c) A meal.
(d) A pail of water.

4. 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.

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

6. What did their landlady do to Snowball despite Bessie's protests?
(a) Cut his hair.
(b) Kicked him out.
(c) Made him clean.
(d) Mistreated him.

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

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

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

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

11. What did Bessie's father take care of?
(a) Fields.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Landscape.
(d) Race horses.

12. In 1964, where did Bessie move to?
(a) Atteridgeville.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) Botswana.
(d) Johannesburg.

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

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

15. What was the trend in Atteridgeville in 1964?
(a) Massive poverty.
(b) Having babies out of wedlock.
(c) Young people all leaving.
(d) Cultural indifference.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?

2. In "Village people," what kind of porridge do they have for every meal?

3. What did the American woman send Bessie?

4. Bessie says that the African people want to develop how?

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

(see the answer keys)

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