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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 animal was involved in the story that the American woman told Bessie regarding a vision?
(a) Goat.
(b) Cow.
(c) Pig.
(d) Chicken.

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

3. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?
(a) She had to leave the country.
(b) Her mother was white.
(c) She was a ward of the state.
(d) Her father was a criminal.

4. What did their landlady do to Snowball despite Bessie's protests?
(a) Mistreated him.
(b) Made him clean.
(c) Cut his hair.
(d) Kicked him out.

5. What months does it rain fiercely in Serowe?
(a) May, June, and July.
(b) August, September, and October.
(c) March, April, and May.
(d) November, December, and January.

Short Answer Questions

1. What race was Bessie's mother?

2. Bessie feels that the South African blacks have a desperate longing to bring out their own what?

3. What did Bessie create in Botswana?

4. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?

5. What did the American woman send Bessie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Bessie keep all the notes that the American woman gave her?

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

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

4. How was African Independence celebrated in Botswana?

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

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

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

8. What are Bessie's beliefs about racists?

9. In "The Woman From America," what was the biggest threat that this woman and her husband posed to the village?

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

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