Mating Test | Final Test - Medium

Norman Rush
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Mating Test | Final Test - Medium

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

2. 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 mother's moodiness.
(c) Memories of the strong relationship she had with her father.
(d) Memories of her father's moodiness.

3. Who does the narrator pour her heart out to when she is upset?
(a) Mma Isang.
(b) Baph.
(c) Dineo.
(d) Mmo.

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

5. What is the debate over in Chapter 7?
(a) Allowing outsiders to come into the village and stay without question.
(b) Allowing men to hold committee seats.
(c) Raising a church building.
(d) Allowing Nelson a seat on the committee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the women does Nelson sleep with before the narrator arrives?

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

3. What is an example of ideology where Nelson and the villagers in Tsau differ?

4. Who pretends to faint in order to stop the argument during the debate?

5. Who comes to visit Nelson in Gaborone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the scheduled debate over God bother the narrator so much? How does Nelson feel?

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

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

6. How are children born in Tsau? How does the narrator react to the birthing process?

7. How does Nelson feel about the men in Tsau?

8. 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?

9. The narrator is strongly against Nelson's trip to Tikwe. Why? What literary tool could the author be using in this section?

10. What requests does Dineo make of the narrator in order for her to be able to take Nelson to Gaborone?

(see the answer keys)

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