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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 old African custom, what were women forbidden to handle?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Ivory.
(c) Silk.
(d) Goats.

2. Bessie's suffering in South Africa created in her a reverence for what?
(a) Peace.
(b) Ordinary people.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Innocence.

3. In her research for her novel, "Maru," Bessie worked right at the roots of what?
(a) South African cultural diversity.
(b) Racial hatred.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Oppression.

4. In Chapter 2, what did the British go to Rhodesia to find?
(a) Relaxation.
(b) Gold.
(c) Schooling.
(d) Work.

5. By the 1830's, most of the tribes of South Africa were what?
(a) Landless.
(b) Assimilated into other tribes.
(c) Extinct.
(d) Christians.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie believe that people cannot protest against?

2. Bessie feels that the main function of a writer is to communicate what?

3. What was Bessie suffering from when she was trying to forge a friendship with the American woman?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How are Bessie and the American woman different?

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

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