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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do we learn about Nelson Denoon from the narrators flash-forward as she enters Tsau?
(a) He came from a very cold, uncaring family.
(b) He had an alcoholic father and a passive mother.
(c) He had several brothers and sisters.
(d) He had an alcoholic mother and a passive father.

5. Who is Nelson Denoon rumored to be staying with in a squatter settlement?
(a) An outcasted white family.
(b) Soldiers of the black revolutionaries.
(c) The local authorities.
(d) A native African family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator use to keep predators away at night in the desert?

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

3. How long does the narrator plan to rest in Gaborone?

4. Where does Nelson ask the narrator to have dinner when he returns to Tsau?

5. What does the narrator take with her to Tsau?

Short Essay Questions

1. The narrator has conflicting feelings about Nelson Denoon after talking to him further in the squatter settlement. What are they?

2. Nelson Denoon tells the narrator at the squatters settlement that there is no place for her on his project. However, she is packing anyway. Why? What does this say about her character?

3. What secret does the narrator learn from "Z"?

4. What happens between the narrator and Nelson Denoon when she first finds the place he is staying?

5. How does the author depict the relationship between Grace and Nelson Denoon? How does the reader know this?

6. What does the narrator obsess about losing after her donkey runs away? Why?

7. The narrator begins to have very strange experiences in the desert. What are they, and how does she overcome it?

8. Who is "Z" and what relationship does the narrator share with him?

9. Why does the narrator position herself as cultural tour guide while in Gaborone?

10. How does land ownership and currency work in Tsau? What observations does the narrator make?

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