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

2. In "A Question of Power," Bessie states that what can lead a people or a nation into a terrible abyss of destruction?
(a) Rage.
(b) Greed.
(c) Evil.
(d) Prejudice.

3. In Chapter 2, Bessie states that the only education for blacks in South Africa is what?
(a) Controlled.
(b) Cultural.
(c) Political.
(d) Biased.

4. Bessie states that one day all nations shall dwell under what shadow?
(a) Total equality.
(b) The Pharaoh's.
(c) Global civilization.
(d) Peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bessie in "Despite broken bondage . . .," what do men in Botswana mostly do?

2. Why did Bessie say the South African experience so difficult for her to deal with in a creative sense?

3. What did the British bring to South Africa, which aided women as food producers?

4. What, does Bessie feel that exploitation and evil are dependent on?

5. What is the meaning of "didactic" works?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie think that the spirit of the Nigra Goddess has done for the blacks in America?

2. In "Notes on Novels," why is Bessie having difficulty writing about her years in South Africa?

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

4. In "African Religions," what, does Bessie state is the main difference between Asian and African religious ideals?

5. In what ways did emancipation slowly make it's way to Botswana?

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

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

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

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

10. What was Bessie's life like during the two years that she lived in the refugee community in northern Botswana?

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