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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the narrator told to survive the desert?
(a) Get past the feeling it is an organism demanding surrender.
(b) Consider the desert a living organism that must be conquered.
(c) Focus on the horizon.
(d) Be prepared with a compass and plenty of water.

2. What does the narrator use to keep predators away at night in the desert?
(a) Spreads urine around the camp to keep them away.
(b) Sets up trip wires, torches, and traps.
(c) Light a ring fire.
(d) Spreads ammonia around the camp to keep them away.

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

4. Where does the narrator believe Nelson has gone while he is on retreat?
(a) He is with another woman.
(b) He has gone to visit his ex-wife.
(c) He has started a new village without her.
(d) He has gone to Gaborone for supplies.

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

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

7. What are the purposes of the inventions Nelson Denoon puts around Tsau?
(a) They help move objects.
(b) To measure the activity in the village.
(c) To protect the village.
(d) They conserve energy and water.

8. How often does Nelson Denoon take his retreats?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Once every six weeks.
(c) Once every two months.
(d) Twice every six months.

9. What does the narrator realize is part of Grace's problem at the party?
(a) Grace is very distraught.
(b) She has taken drugs.
(c) Grace is drunk.
(d) She has a mental illness.

10. Who does the narrator pretend to be when she first enters Tsau?
(a) None of these.
(b) A research scientist brought in by Nelson Denoon.
(c) An anthropologist who went astray in the desert.
(d) An ornithologist who went astray in the desert.

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

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

13. What activity do the narrator and Nelson do together around the village?
(a) They find uses for new inventions.
(b) They share meals together.
(c) They check livestock.
(d) They take walks together.

14. Who do the homesteads belong to in Tsau?
(a) The Mother Committee.
(b) Men of the village.
(c) Women of the village.
(d) Nelson Denoon.

15. What does the narrator do with most of her possessions?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Mail them off.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Sell them off.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator know of Nelson Denoon?

2. What is the population of Tsau?

3. What is the narrator's most unusual quality?

4. What physical change in the narrator causes her to worry about physical stress and poor nutrition while in the bush?

5. Where does the narrator lose one of the animals she is traveling with?

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