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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 happened to Snowball?
(a) He got into a bar fight.
(b) He left town.
(c) His dinghy collapsed.
(d) He got thrown into jail for being subversive.

2. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Be controlled.
(c) Adhere to western culture.
(d) Practice Christianity.

3. What additional information did the social worker tell Bessie?
(a) Her mother was insane.
(b) Her mother wanted nothing to do with her.
(c) Her mother was dying.
(d) Her parents wanted her to leave the country.

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

5. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?
(a) The exuberant innocent.
(b) The ample artist.
(c) The innocent escapist.
(d) The people's savior.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

3. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?

4. What does Bessie feel is the most important aspect to having friends in South Africa?

5. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was African Independence celebrated in Botswana?

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

5. How does Bessie describe Botswana in 1964?

6. Why was Bessie given up for adoption?

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

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

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

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

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