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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 do the villagers of Tsau do at night?
(a) Develop a plan for tomorrow's chores and activities.
(b) Go around the village socializing with houses that have a welcome light on.
(c) Stay in their individual homes for safety reasons.
(d) Meet in the community building for dinner.

2. What does the narrator see that signifies she is within eight miles of Tsau?
(a) Roads.
(b) An oasis.
(c) Hills.
(d) A wooded grove.

3. Who does the narrator tell about her travel plans?
(a) "Z".
(b) Residents of the settlement.
(c) A native African family she's staying with.
(d) Nuns at the mission.

4. Who is building a village from the ground up?
(a) "Z".
(b) Martin Wade.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Nelson Denoon.

5. What color is Nelson Denoon's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Blonde.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator stop before heading to Tsau?

2. What does Nelson Denoon represent to the narrator?

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

4. What month is the narrator traveling to Tsau?

5. Where do Grace and the narrator find Nelson Denoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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