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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie say is the root of traditional African life?
(a) Being at one with all things.
(b) Respecting your neighbor.
(c) Work, rest and prayer.
(d) The land.

2. Bessie says that people in Botswana lead very what lives?
(a) Secure.
(b) Rebellious.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Unassuming.

3. Bessie views the author, Pasternak, as the liberator of what?
(a) Russia.
(b) Passion.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Children.

4. In "African religions," what does African religion focus on?
(a) Deities.
(b) Afterlife.
(c) Mutual cooperation.
(d) Sacrifice.

5. In "God and the underdog," Bessie states that there is nothing that moves her more deeply than what?
(a) Children with no future.
(b) The emancipation of African blacks.
(c) Poverty.
(d) The history of the Jews.

6. How many major tribes are there in Botswana?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

7. In Chapter 2, Bessie believes that God is embodied in whom?
(a) Her adoptive mother.
(b) The souls of all black Africans.
(c) The children.
(d) The American woman.

8. In Chapter 2, what person made Bessie's natural hatred of the white man ebb?
(a) The American woman.
(b) Cambridge volunteer.
(c) A child.
(d) Pasternak.

9. According to Bessie, revolutionary movements are composed of people living with what?
(a) Mental instability.
(b) Rage.
(c) Regret.
(d) Poverty.

10. What year was the old British Bechuanaland Protectorate established in Botswana?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1890.

11. Bessie states that one day all nations shall dwell under what shadow?
(a) Peace.
(b) The Pharaoh's.
(c) Global civilization.
(d) Total equality.

12. Bessie states that the system in South Africa sees blacks as not what?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Ambitious.
(c) Human.
(d) Worthy.

13. How did the British refer to Botswana in the early 1800's?
(a) Barren land of heathens.
(b) Hell on earth.
(c) Desert full of blacks.
(d) God-awful country to live in.

14. In Chapter 2, Bessie states that the only education for blacks in South Africa is what?
(a) Controlled.
(b) Political.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Biased.

15. What special category did Bessie see her writing in?
(a) South African telling a South African story.
(b) Black woman with her own style.
(c) Sufferer exposing the truth.
(d) Blazing a new trail into the future.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie feel that the African people need, for their civilization?

2. Why did Bessie say the South African experience so difficult for her to deal with in a creative sense?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie believe that people cannot protest against?

4. In "Makeba music," Bessie states that she believes in what?

5. According to an account by Dr. W.H.C. Lichtenstein, Botswana men only do work that can be what?

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