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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 is Nelson Denoon doing when the narrator and Grace find him at the party?
(a) He is discussing academics with other black and white professors.
(b) He is kissing another woman.
(c) He is having a debate with black and white politicians.
(d) He is telling jokes with a group of other men.

2. How is Grace Denoon described by the narrator when she runs into Grace?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) All of these.
(c) Obviously rich.
(d) Acting strangely.

3. What mistake does the narrator make after finding Nelson Denoon?
(a) She insults Nelson's project.
(b) She uses an experimental outhouse.
(c) She knocks over an experimental outhouse.
(d) She insults the people Nelson is staying with.

4. What happens at the end of Nelson's speech at the party?
(a) None of these.
(b) A flood.
(c) A sandstorm.
(d) A thunderstorm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Nelson Denoon fascinates the narrator?

2. How old is the narrator when she starts her journey to Gaborone at the beginning of the book?

3. Why does the relationship between Martin Wade and the narrator dissolve?

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

5. Where is the narrator from originally?

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