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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Bessie referring to in "A Gentle People"?
(a) The missionaries.
(b) The children.
(c) The white people of Cape Town.
(d) The black people of Cape Town.

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. Where was Bessie sent at age 13?
(a) Missionary orphanage.
(b) School.
(c) Her grandparents home.
(d) United States.

4. Bessie states that "in her work" everyone has what?
(a) Their story told.
(b) Equal representation.
(c) A place in her world.
(d) A right to speak.

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

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

7. Bessie says that the African people want to develop how?
(a) Industrially.
(b) Slowly.
(c) Judiciously.
(d) With pride.

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

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

10. In Bessie's opinion, South African refugees are generally, what?
(a) Angry.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Fed up.
(d) Dangerous.

11. What does Bessie call Southern Africa?
(a) Her little piece of hell.
(b) A forgotten culture.
(c) Home.
(d) The unholiest place on earth.

12. What startled Bessie in 1965?
(a) An arrest.
(b) A tsunami.
(c) A letter from her father.
(d) The liberation of Africa.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What race was Bessie's mother?

2. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?

3. In "Village people," Bessie states that poverty in Africa is like a second skin and worn with what?

4. Who raised Bessie?

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

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