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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. How many cattle died in the major drought in Botswana?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 300,000.
2. How many years did Bessie live in South Africa?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 21.
(d) 27.
3. What did the British bring to South Africa, which aided women as food producers?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Iron hand-plough.
(c) Shovels.
(d) Chickens.
4. Why did Bessie say the South African experience so difficult for her to deal with in a creative sense?
(a) She had too much inner turmoil.
(b) She couldn't get past her own personal views.
(c) She had no family for support.
(d) It was evil.
5. What is the result of the casual sexual practices of the men of Botswana?
(a) More poverty.
(b) Rise in alcoholism.
(c) AIDS epidemic.
(d) High rate of illegitimate births.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Makeba music," where would Russian people caught dealing in the black market be deported to?
2. In "African religions," why did Bessie say that most of Asia was blanked out as barbaric in her school's geography book?
3. Who is the main character in Bessie's first novel, "When Rain Clouds Gather"?
4. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie believe that people cannot protest against?
5. In "African religions," what does African religion focus on?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Bessie able to write in Botswana rather than South Africa?
2. How is Bessie's hatred of the white man lessened in Chapter 2?
3. What was Bessie's life like during the two years that she lived in the refugee community in northern Botswana?
4. In "God and The Underdog," what does Bessie feel fuels revolutions?
5. Why was it so difficult for Bessie to deal with South Africa creatively?
6. Why does Bessie think of the American woman as some sort of goddess?
7. In the conclusion of Chapter 2, how does Bessie summarize her life experiences?
8. When Bessie arrived in Botswana in 1964, what were the major differences that she noticed between that country and South Africa?
9. How does Bessie describe the world that a black South African is born into?
10. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie think that the spirit of the Nigra Goddess has done for the blacks in America?
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