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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. What critique does the narrator have of Nelson Denoon?
(a) His disheveled appearance.
(b) His unorthadox approach to local politics.
(c) The way he treats his wife.
(d) His unpolished speaking style.

2. Where does the narrator lose one of the animals she is traveling with?
(a) Sand dunes.
(b) A sinister-looking wooded grove.
(c) Foot hills near a mountain range.
(d) The middle of the desert.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Tsau governing body?

2. How does the narrator's demeanor change as she finally enters Tsau?

3. What does Nelson Denoon represent to the narrator?

4. Who does the narrator have quasi-romantic interludes with while traveling to Victoria Falls?

5. Who disrobes in front the narrator in the bathhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator have such difficulty finding the place where Nelson Denoon is rumored to be staying?

3. What does Dineo question about the narrator's cover story after the narrator has been in Tsau for a few days and why?

4. Who is Martin Wade and what relationship does the narrator share with him?

5. Why does the narrator stick to the story she created when she first entered Tsau?

6. What does the narrator take with her to Tsau? Why is this significant?

7. What happens when the narrator is summoned before the Mother Committee? What must she do to stay in Tsau?

8. What does Nelson Denoon believe is "Solar Democracy"?

9. The narrator travels across the desert to Tsau with two donkeys. How does she feel about them? Why?

10. Describe the narrator's reaction to meeting Nelson Denoon. How is he different from her expectations?

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