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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator lose when one of her animals runs off?
(a) Part of her supplies.
(b) All of these.
(c) Water.
(d) The tent.

2. Who says "while capitalism is destroying Africa and its village's socialism is not the answer"?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Nelson Denoon.
(c) Grace Denoon.
(d) Martin Wade.

3. What job is the narrator offered at a party in Gaborone?
(a) Department Director.
(b) Secretary.
(c) House sitting.
(d) Dog walking.

4. What does the narrator fear may attack during her trip to Tsau?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Lions.
(d) Vultures.

5. Who would like to see Nelson and the narrator together as a couple?
(a) Mma Isang.
(b) Dineo.
(c) Dorca.
(d) Grace Denoon.

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

7. What does Nelson Denoon represent to the narrator?
(a) The apex of a successful career in social service.
(b) An unattainable dream.
(c) A desperate and unsuccessful attempt to change African society.
(d) The apex of a successful academic career.

8. Where is the narrator from originally?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Iowa.

9. What is a rondavel?
(a) A round thatched hut.
(b) A community building located in the center of the village.
(c) A farming tool.
(d) A cart pulled by donkeys.

10. What is the narrator doing when she bumps into Grace Denoon?
(a) She is buying tweezers.
(b) She is making travel arrangements.
(c) She is getting her hair done.
(d) She is buying groceries.

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

12. How does the narrator know of Nelson Denoon?
(a) She has been one of his colleagues for years.
(b) She has been friends with him for years.
(c) She admired his work while she was at Harvard.
(d) She admired his work while she was at Stanford University.

13. Who takes the narrator in when she arrives in Tsau?
(a) Nelson Denoon.
(b) A man named Isang Mma.
(c) A woman named Mma Isang.
(d) A woman named Dineo.

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

15. Who is Martin Wade?
(a) A former colleague of the narrator.
(b) A South African army deserter.
(c) A local politician.
(d) A former soldier of the black revolutionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Nelson Denoon leave Tsau without telling the narrator?

2. Who do the homesteads belong to in Tsau?

3. How does the narrator travel the second leg, the last 100 miles, of her trip to Tsau?

4. How does Grace know the location of Nelson Denoon's project?

5. What critique does the narrator have of Nelson Denoon?

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