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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie feel that the African people need, for their civilization?
(a) Pride.
(b) Determination.
(c) Largeness of heart.
(d) Togetherness.

3. In Chapter 2, Bessie states that Botswana has survived by what?
(a) Sheer luck.
(b) Having few whites.
(c) Lack of violence.
(d) The grace of God.

4. In "A Question of Power," Bessie states that what can lead a people or a nation into a terrible abyss of destruction?
(a) Evil.
(b) Rage.
(c) Greed.
(d) Prejudice.

5. In "God and the underdog," what do the Ku Klux Klan members discover when they get to heaven?
(a) Their families are not there.
(b) God is a black woman.
(c) The gates are locked, to them.
(d) They're really in hell.

6. According to Bessie in "Despite broken bondage . . .," what do men in Botswana mostly do?
(a) Hunt.
(b) Play games.
(c) Drink.
(d) Work.

7. What does Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Mental instability.
(c) How she grew up.
(d) Fellow refugees.

8. In "African religions," Bessie states that African religion doesn't receive value because they don't have what?
(a) Deity figurines to worship.
(b) Large congregations.
(c) Ornate houses of worship.
(d) Money for recruiting followers.

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

10. What was the name of the conquered tribe in Botswana?
(a) Basarwa.
(b) Bomangwato.
(c) Bangato.
(d) Batawna.

11. Bessie's suffering in South Africa created in her a reverence for what?
(a) Peace.
(b) Ordinary people.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Quiet.

12. How many cattle died in the major drought in Botswana?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

13. What does Bessie state was totally absent in her?
(a) Sense of belonging.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Political fervor.
(d) Sense of history.

14. In "Makeba music," Bessie states that she believes in what?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Revolution.
(d) The contents of the human heart.

15. What writer does Bessie quote in "Social and political pressures . . ."?
(a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Ernest Hemmingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the British refer to Botswana in the early 1800's?

2. In "African religions," what does African religion focus on?

3. Bessie says that people in Botswana lead very what lives?

4. What makes people suffer according to Bessie?

5. In Chapter 2, what person made Bessie's natural hatred of the white man ebb?

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