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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (pages 131-163).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator see that signifies she is within eight miles of Tsau?
(a) A wooded grove.
(b) Hills.
(c) An oasis.
(d) Roads.

4. Where does "Z" offer to take the narrator when she first meets him?
(a) He offers to drive her home from the library.
(b) He offers to drive her to a party.
(c) He offers to drive her home from the grocery store.
(d) He offers to take her home from a party.

5. What physical change in the narrator causes her to worry about physical stress and poor nutrition while in the bush?
(a) Her steady loss of weight.
(b) The cessation of her menstrual cycle.
(c) She begins losing her hair.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we learn about Nelson Denoon from the narrators flash-forward as she enters Tsau?

2. Who is Martin Wade?

3. What things is the narrator ready for when she arrives in Gaborone?

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

5. How do the inhabitants of the squatter settlement view the narrator when she comes looking for Denoon?

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