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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (pages 90-111).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characteristics does "Z" demonstrate?
(a) Interested in anthropology.
(b) Vanity.
(c) All of these.
(d) Loneliness.

2. What is the narrator's most unusual quality?
(a) Her physical appearance.
(b) Her ability to remember names and faces.
(c) Her didactic memory.
(d) Her obsession with geography.

3. Who leads the narrator to Nelson Denoon?
(a) Women in the market.
(b) A local official.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Children.

4. Who is drawn to "intellectual love"?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Martin Wade.
(c) Grace Denoon.
(d) Nelson Denoon.

5. What does the narrator study in the African bush as a part of her thesis?
(a) Seasonal nutritional availability and its effect on infant mortality.
(b) Seasonal nutritional availability and its effect on the local death rate.
(c) Seasonal nutritional availability and its effect on fertility.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is having the party where the narrator may meet Nelson Denoon?

2. What does the narrator position herself as once she is in Gaborone?

3. What happens at the end of Nelson's speech at the party?

4. Who says "while capitalism is destroying Africa and its village's socialism is not the answer"?

5. Where is the narrator from originally?

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