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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 does the narrator learn about a party from where she may meet Nelson Denoon?
(a) Grace Denoon.
(b) "Z".
(c) The owners of the home she is house sitting at.
(d) Martin Wade.

2. Where is the narrator preparing to go in Chapter 2?
(a) She is preparing to travel to Cape Town.
(b) She is preparing to travel home.
(c) She is preparing to go back into the bush to do more research.
(d) She is preparing to travel to Nelson's project.

3. How many homesteads are in Tsau?
(a) 200.
(b) 250.
(c) 150.
(d) 175.

4. How do the inhabitants of the squatter settlement view the narrator when she comes looking for Denoon?
(a) As a friend.
(b) As an official-looking white woman.
(c) As a suspicious outsider.
(d) As someone who wants to improve their situation.

5. Why does the relationship between Martin Wade and the narrator dissolve?
(a) Martin is very opposed to the luxury the narrator represents as an American.
(b) Martin's involvement in dangerous political activities.
(c) Martin is far more ascetic than the narrator.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the villagers of Tsau do at night?

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

3. How does the narrator feel about Nelson Doonen's holier-than-thou political attitudes?

4. How does the narrator travel the second leg, the last 100 miles, of her trip to Tsau?

5. What does Nelson believe African village-societies can offer Africans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What feelings does the narrator have as a result of visiting Victoria Falls with Giles? Why?

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

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

8. Nelson leaves Tsau on retreat for four days. Why doesn't he tell the narrator why or where he is going? How does the narrator react?

9. What does the narrator discover through her thesis work in the African bush? Is it what she expected?

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

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