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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. Where does the narrator go the day after the party to find Nelson Denoon?
(a) Tsau.
(b) Naledi.
(c) Botswana.
(d) Gaborone.

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

3. Who is Nelson Denoon rumored to be staying with in a squatter settlement?
(a) An outcasted white family.
(b) Soldiers of the black revolutionaries.
(c) A native African family.
(d) The local authorities.

4. Who does the narrator believe "Z" knows secrets about?
(a) Martin Wade.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Nelson Denoon.
(d) None of these.

5. How long was the narrator in the African bush studying for her thesis?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 24 months.
(d) 12 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nelson Denoon represent to the narrator?

2. How does the narrator know of Nelson Denoon?

3. What does Nelson Denoon suggest African's should harness the power of?

4. Who is drawn to "intellectual love"?

5. Who does the narrator have quasi-romantic interludes with while traveling to Victoria Falls?

(see the answer key)

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