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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bessie enjoy that she feels South Africa denied her?
(a) Free expression.
(b) Repetition and simplicity in life.
(c) Safety.
(d) Educational opportunities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In "Village people," what kind of porridge do they have for every meal?
(a) Millet.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Rice.
(d) Potato.

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

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

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

13. 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) The Afrikaners.
(c) African hunger.
(d) Politics.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bessie learn to hate?

2. Bessie had stories to tell but couldn't write them. Why?

3. What does Bessie call Southern Africa?

4. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?

5. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?

(see the answer keys)

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