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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bessie forbidden to do on holidays?
(a) Pray.
(b) Visit her adoptive mother.
(c) Practice cultural customs.
(d) Visit friends.

2. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Peace.
(c) Freedom to practice cultural traditions.
(d) Their dignity.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1965, what did Bessie write that the people of South Africa need to find in order to live together?

2. What race was Bessie's father?

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

4. How do most black friends in South Africa meet?

5. Who does Bessie think the Afrikaner race will one day emulate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What more compassionate details concerning her mother did Bessie learn over time?

2. What does Bessie say about refugees and friendship in "Letter from South Africa"?

3. What did Bessie think of the mission orphanage that she was sent to at age 13?

4. How did Bessie react when she was forbidden to visit her adoptive family on school holidays?

5. In 1966, what changes were made regarding refugees in Botswana?

6. What facts about her parentage were brutally told to Bessie by the magistrate and the missionary?

7. In "The Old Woman," what is Bessie referring to when she says "Gods walk around Africa barefoot with nothing"?

8. Why do the South African blacks relate to the artist, Gladys Mgudlandlu?

9. Why is Bessie so drawn to the American woman in "Woman from America"?

10. In "An Unspeakable Crime," why does Bessie feel discouraged by the South African blacks?

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