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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 Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Fellow refugees.
(c) Mental instability.
(d) How she grew up.

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

3. In Chapter 2, Bessie believes that God is embodied in whom?
(a) The souls of all black Africans.
(b) The American woman.
(c) Her adoptive mother.
(d) The children.

4. What is the result of the casual sexual practices of the men of Botswana?
(a) More poverty.
(b) Rise in alcoholism.
(c) High rate of illegitimate births.
(d) AIDS epidemic.

5. Bessie describes Botswana men as what?
(a) Not nice.
(b) Unattractive.
(c) Immature.
(d) Unmotivated.

Short Answer Questions

1. In old African custom, what were women forbidden to handle?

2. In "Makeba music," where would Russian people caught dealing in the black market be deported to?

3. How many major tribes are there in Botswana?

4. According to an account by Dr. W.H.C. Lichtenstein, Botswana men only do work that can be what?

5. How many cattle died in the major drought in Botswana?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Social and Political Pressures . . . ," what astonished Bessie about the book "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

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

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

5. In Chapter 2, why is the friendship between Bessie and the American woman painful?

6. In "God and The Underdog," what does Bessie feel fuels revolutions?

7. In "African Religions," what does Bessie state is at the root of religion in Africa?

8. In "Makeba Music," how does Bessie describe the musician, Makeba?

9. How are Bessie and the American woman different?

10. In "Despite Broken Bondage . . .," how were women treated in Africa before independence?

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