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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 ask to take her donkey back from the community in order to go get Nelson?
(a) Dineo.
(b) Dorcas.
(c) Mma Isang.
(d) Hector.

2. Why is Nelson in a bad mood when the narrator tries to cheer him up?
(a) He is angry over African political issues.
(b) He is angry over Tsau political issues.
(c) He is angry over American political issues.
(d) He is angry over Spanish political issues.

3. What illness overtakes Nelson for forty-eight hours?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Hives.
(c) Fever.
(d) Stomach flu.

4. Who does Nelson bring gifts for the night he comes to get the narrator?
(a) Dorca.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Dineo.
(d) Mma Isang.

5. How does the narrator feel about being asked to be on the snake team?
(a) All of these.
(b) Terrified.
(c) Elated.
(d) Honored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator force Nelson to do out of frustration to jolt him out of his calm mental state?

2. The villagers want to allow guns in Tsau. What alternative does Nelson offer?

3. Who is elected to the Mother Committee's second chair?

4. What tribe does the narrator come across during her search for Nelson in the desert?

5. Where does Nelson ask the narrator to move into his home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the villagers against hand washing and sanitation?

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

3. Why does the narrator become so frustrated when she has Nelson back in Gaborone? What does this frustration lead her to?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What upsets Nelson about the growing amount of bartering with Basarwa, a nearby settlement? What items does he not like?

8. How does Nelson react to the arrival of Harold Mace and Julia Rodden in Tsau?

9. What shift occurs during the debate over God? Why does this happen?

10. What changes do we see in Nelson and the narrator as a result of Nelson's malaria?

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