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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 does Nelson create on the women of the village that offends the narrator?
(a) A diagram that demonstrates the positions each woman holds.
(b) A map noting where the women came from.
(c) A map showing where the women will be relocated to start new villages.
(d) A diagram that shows the families, tribes, and affiliations.

2. What mission does the narrator go on with Nelson's gun?
(a) To kill vervets.
(b) To kill lions.
(c) To destroy the gun.
(d) To kill snakes.

3. What does the narrator do while Nelson sleeps?
(a) Writes in her journal.
(b) Cleans.
(c) All of these.
(d) Ponders what is happening to her heart.

4. What items are brought in for the baby to see when it is born?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Relatives.
(d) Both of these.

5. Who pretends to faint in order to stop the argument during the debate?
(a) Dorcas.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Dineo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tendencies does Nelson say males have in general?

2. Who supports Nelson's ideas about guns in the village?

3. Who organizes the night men in Tsau?

4. What does Nelson drink with Harold?

5. Who comes to visit Nelson in Gaborone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do the first time Nelson invites her to his house? Is this unexpected?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe two of the political happenings in Chapter Six. What is their significance?

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

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

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

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