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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. How does the narrator travel the second leg, the last 100 miles, of her trip to Tsau?
(a) On camels.
(b) None of these.
(c) On horseback.
(d) On foot.

2. How does Grace know the location of Nelson Denoon's project?
(a) She helped him establish the project.
(b) He was required to tell her lawyers.
(c) He told her while they were married.
(d) She overheard a conversation between him and his lawyers.

3. 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 fertility.
(c) Seasonal nutritional availability and its effect on the local death rate.
(d) None of these.

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

5. What objects does the narrator obsess over losing during her trip to Tsau?
(a) Her comb.
(b) Both 1 & 2.
(c) Her mirror.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator feel about Nelson Doonen's holier-than-thou political attitudes?

3. What physical ailment is "Z" hiding that the narrator helps him alleviate?

4. Who is drawn to "intellectual love"?

5. What job is the narrator offered at a party in Gaborone?

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