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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. How long does Nelson Denoon leave Tsau without telling the narrator?
(a) Four days.
(b) Three days.
(c) A week.
(d) Ten days.

2. What is the social purpose of Tsau?
(a) To remove the rights of black African women.
(b) None of these.
(c) To remove the rights of black African men.
(d) To balance some of the injustices black African women face.

3. What is motivating the narrator to travel to Tsau?
(a) Her need to crack the mystery.
(b) Her need for adventure.
(c) Her desire to complete her thesis.
(d) Her desire to impress Nelson Denoon.

4. 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.

5. How does the narrator feel about Nelson Doonen's holier-than-thou political attitudes?
(a) She appreciates it.
(b) Both of these.
(c) She is critical of it.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Z" do for a living?

2. How is the narrator told to survive the desert?

3. What physical ailment is "Z" hiding that the narrator helps him alleviate?

4. What is Nelson Denoon doing when the narrator and Grace find him at the party?

5. What does the narrator do with most of her possessions?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What kinds of jokes does the narrator tell Nelson after dinner at Mma Isang's? Why?

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

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

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

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

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