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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 (pages 409-436).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator ask to take her donkey back from the community in order to go get Nelson?
(a) Hector.
(b) Dineo.
(c) Mma Isang.
(d) Dorcas.

2. Who is Grace with when the narrator bumps into her in town?
(a) A powerful Boer.
(b) A boyfriend.
(c) A drug dealer.
(d) A personal body guard.

3. Who is Mma Isang trying to keep from the new arch ceremony?
(a) Dineo.
(b) Hector and Dorcas.
(c) The night men.
(d) Nelson and the narrator.

4. Who must the narrator pretend she does not know while in Tsau?
(a) Grace Denoon.
(b) Dineo.
(c) Mma Isang.
(d) Nelson Denoon.

5. What do we learn about Nelson Denoon from the narrators flash-forward as she enters Tsau?
(a) He came from a very cold, uncaring family.
(b) He had an alcoholic father and a passive mother.
(c) He had several brothers and sisters.
(d) He had an alcoholic mother and a passive father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the narrator told to survive the desert?

2. Why is Nelson in a bad mood when the narrator tries to cheer him up?

3. Who is drawn to "intellectual love"?

4. How does the narrator travel the first leg of her trip to Tsau?

5. Which of the women does Nelson sleep with before the narrator arrives?

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