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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 people did the Bushmen resemble?
(a) White Afrikaners.
(b) Black South Africans.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Black Irish.

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

3. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie believe that people cannot protest against?
(a) Their own natures.
(b) Religion.
(c) Evil social systems.
(d) The white man.

4. In "Makeba music," where would Russian people caught dealing in the black market be deported to?
(a) Israel.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Africa.
(d) United States.

5. According to Bessie in "African religions," what is at the root and foundation of African religion?
(a) Family.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Communal goodness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special category did Bessie see her writing in?

2. Bessie feels that literature in South Africa is very what?

3. What is the only industry that the British used Botswana for?

4. In Chapter 2, what did the British go to Rhodesia to find?

5. What was the name of the conquered tribe in Botswana?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Bessie consider Botswana the "most unique and distinguished country in Africa"?

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

8. When Bessie arrived in Botswana in 1964, what were the major differences that she noticed between that country and South Africa?

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

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

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