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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. Bessie feels that the South African people lack what?
(a) Pride.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Determination.
(d) Dignity.
2. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?
(a) They shall overcome.
(b) Their culture will survive.
(c) They are doomed.
(d) The rest of the world will save them.
3. What does Bessie call Southern Africa?
(a) The unholiest place on earth.
(b) A forgotten culture.
(c) Her little piece of hell.
(d) Home.
4. What race was Bessie's father?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Mulatto.
(c) Black.
(d) White.
5. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?
(a) Pink soles of his feet.
(b) Red lips.
(c) White hair.
(d) White teeth.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?
2. What did Bessie learn to hate?
3. In "Village people," what kind of porridge do they have for every meal?
4. What did Boeta L revert to when no one accepts his cause?
5. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Bessie think of the mission orphanage that she was sent to at age 13?
2. What does Bessie say about refugees and friendship in "Letter from South Africa"?
3. Why do the South African blacks relate to the artist, Gladys Mgudlandlu?
4. In "Village People," how does Bessie describe the black African people?
5. In "A Gentle People," what are Bessie's feelings regarding the black people of Cape Town?
6. How does Bessie describe the Botswana flag to students during the independence celebration?
7. What are Bessie's beliefs about racists?
8. In 1982, Bessie writes about her reaction when people discussed her writing. Why did she get so frustrated?
9. What more compassionate details concerning her mother did Bessie learn over time?
10. In "Village People," how does Bessie describe poverty in Africa?
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