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

2. How many members are on Tsau's governing body?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the homesteads belong to in Tsau?

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

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

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

5. Where does "Z" offer to take the narrator when she first meets him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the reader learn about the narrator in Chapter 1? What characteristics does she display?

3. What does "intellectual love" mean in the book?

4. What drives the narrator to contact Nelson Denoon?

5. There are disagreements as to whether or not Nelson and the narrator should be a couple. Describe the feelings on this subject in the village.

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

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

8. Grace Denoon and the narrator have lunch together after the narrator bumps into Grace while shopping for supplies. What do they discuss? What does this conversation represent?

9. What does the narrator pretend to be when she enters Tsau? Why?

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

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