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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Tsau governing body?
(a) The Denoon Council.
(b) The Mother Council.
(c) The Mother Committee.
(d) The Sister Committee.

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

3. Who does the narrator tell about her travel plans?
(a) A native African family she's staying with.
(b) "Z".
(c) Nuns at the mission.
(d) Residents of the settlement.

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. Who is having the party where the narrator may meet Nelson Denoon?
(a) A powerful black politician.
(b) A wealthy American philanthropist.
(c) An American diplomat.
(d) A powerful white politician.

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

7. Who must the narrator pretend she does not know while in Tsau?
(a) Dineo.
(b) Mma Isang.
(c) Grace Denoon.
(d) Nelson Denoon.

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

9. What does Nelson Denoon suggest African's should harness the power of?
(a) The sun.
(b) The wind.
(c) The local people.
(d) The waterways.

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

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

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

13. What is the population of Tsau?
(a) 550.
(b) 500.
(c) 450.
(d) 400.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator consider her work on her thesis in the African bush?

4. What does Grace tell the narrator during their lunch in a restaurant?

5. Who do the homesteads belong to in Tsau?

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