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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 does Snowball believe can co-exist?
(a) Science and spiritualism.
(b) Blacks and whites.
(c) Western and African cultures.
(d) Christianity and Hinduism.

2. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?
(a) Her adoptive mother.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her real mother.
(d) Her father.

3. What did Bessie have to start doing in 1966?
(a) Take medication.
(b) See a psychiatrist.
(c) Report regularly to the police.
(d) Get her manuscript censored.

4. Bessie Head was born in what year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1938.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What race was Bessie's father?

2. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?

3. Bessie states that "in her work" everyone has what?

4. What happened to Snowball?

5. What did their landlady do to Snowball despite Bessie's protests?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "preface to Witchcraft," why is Bessie angry with South Africa?

3. In 1982, Bessie writes about her reaction when people discussed her writing. Why did she get so frustrated?

4. In "A Gentle People," what are Bessie's feelings regarding the black people of Cape Town?

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

6. In "Village People," how does Bessie describe poverty in Africa?

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

8. What are Bessie's beliefs about racists?

9. In "Village People," how does Bessie describe the black African people?

10. How was African Independence celebrated in Botswana?

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