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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 tendencies does Nelson say males have in general?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Tendencies toward victimization of the weak.
(d) Tendencies toward violence.

2. What decision is the narrator struggling with regarding Tsau and Nelson Denoon?
(a) Whether or not to stay.
(b) Whether or not to help him start a new village.
(c) Whether or not to leave with him.
(d) Whether or not to return with him to Britain.

3. What does Nelson's reaction to the narrator's attempts to cheer him up bring to the narrator's mind?
(a) Memories of the strong relationship she had with her mother.
(b) Memories of her father's moodiness.
(c) Memories of the strong relationship she had with her father.
(d) Memories of her mother's moodiness.

4. What does Dorcas accuse Nelson of the night he and the narrator argue?
(a) She accuses him of murdering Hector.
(b) She accuses him of controlling the village for too long.
(c) She accuses him of impregnating a young girl.
(d) She accuses him of murdering Mma Isang.

5. What fact do a couple of women ask the narrator to confirm?
(a) She has no father.
(b) She has no income.
(c) Her mother is poor.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Harold and Julia say they are in Tsau?

2. What parts of the snakes are valuable in Tsau?

3. Who organizes the night men in Tsau?

4. Who is Mma Isang trying to keep from the new arch ceremony?

5. What is the narrator doing when a group of villagers, led by Hector, come to speak with Nelson?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about her decision regarding whether or not to stay in Tsau?

2. There continues to be social unrest in Tsau. The village is now split regarding the presence of the night men. What does the narrator learn about the disagreement? How does she feel about it?

3. How does the narrator react when Nelson shows her a political diagram of the women in the village? Why? How does Nelson react? Why? Are their reactions characteristic of them?

4. How does Nelson suggest to the narrator that they could stay in Tsau? Why? How does the narrator respond?

5. Why does the narrator leave the villager's presentation of Lamentations of Women?

6. What new sign of trouble emerges in Tsau after the issue with the guns and the bartering have been called into question?

7. What are some of the issues that Nelson Denoon and the narrator debate and discuss?

8. What honor does the narrator receive in Tsau? How does she feel about what she's been asked to do?

9. What argument do Nelson and the narrator have the day after the debate? Why is this significant?

10. How does the village react to Nelson and the narrator becoming a couple? What happens that night?

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