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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 the name of the conquered tribe in Botswana?
(a) Batawna.
(b) Bangato.
(c) Bomangwato.
(d) Basarwa.

2. In Chapter2, how does Bessie describe her third novel, "A Question of Power"?
(a) The most satisfying.
(b) Difficult to write.
(c) Intensely personal and private.
(d) A work of excruciating detail.

3. What is the only industry that the British used Botswana for?
(a) Railroad.
(b) Mining.
(c) Farming.
(d) Timber production.

4. In African culture, what can't a woman do to their husband?
(a) Lodge complaints against them.
(b) Divorce them.
(c) Berate them.
(d) Strike them.

5. In Chapter 2, what person made Bessie's natural hatred of the white man ebb?
(a) Cambridge volunteer.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) A child.
(d) The American woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the great leader of Botswana that protected it's people?

2. In "Notes on novels," how is pre-colonial invasion South Africa described?

3. Bessie states that the system in South Africa sees blacks as not what?

4. Josef Herman, the artist who lived through the Nazi invasion of Poland, fled to what country?

5. In "Despite broken bondage . . .," in the old days a woman was only regarded as sacred if she what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "A Note on Rain Clouds," what does Bessie state is thwarting young, idealistic, black men and their ideals?

2. Why according to Bessie has Botswana survived by "sheer luck and unexpected good fortune"?

3. Why was Bessie able to write in Botswana rather than South Africa?

4. Why does Bessie think of the American woman as some sort of goddess?

5. What was Bessie's first experience of racism in a black form?

6. In the conclusion of Chapter 2, how does Bessie summarize her life experiences?

7. How does Bessie describe the world that a black South African is born into?

8. How are Bessie and the American woman different?

9. Why was it so difficult for Bessie to deal with South Africa creatively?

10. How is Bessie's hatred of the white man lessened in Chapter 2?

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