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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. Bessie describes Botswana men as what?
(a) Unattractive.
(b) Immature.
(c) Unmotivated.
(d) Not nice.
2. By the 1830's, most of the tribes of South Africa were what?
(a) Landless.
(b) Extinct.
(c) Assimilated into other tribes.
(d) Christians.
3. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie say is the root of traditional African life?
(a) Respecting your neighbor.
(b) The land.
(c) Being at one with all things.
(d) Work, rest and prayer.
4. How many cattle died in the major drought in Botswana?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 500,000.
5. 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) It was evil.
(d) She had no family for support.
Short Answer Questions
1. What year was the old British Bechuanaland Protectorate established in Botswana?
2. When did Bessie first get published?
3. Bessie states that Botswana men do not care about what?
4. What does the musician, Makeba, have a passion for?
5. According to an account by Dr. W.H.C. Lichtenstein, Botswana men only do work that can be what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Bessie's opinion of Botswana men?
2. In the conclusion of Chapter 2, how does Bessie summarize her life experiences?
3. In Chapter 2, what does Bessie think that the spirit of the Nigra Goddess has done for the blacks in America?
4. In what ways did emancipation slowly make it's way to Botswana?
5. In "African Religions," what, does Bessie state is the main difference between Asian and African religious ideals?
6. Why according to Bessie has Botswana survived by "sheer luck and unexpected good fortune"?
7. In "Despite Broken Bondage . . .," how were women treated in Africa before independence?
8. In "African Religions," what does Bessie state is at the root of religion in Africa?
9. How are Bessie and the American woman different?
10. In Chapter 2, why is the friendship between Bessie and the American woman painful?
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