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

2. What does Nelson read while in jail?
(a) None of these.
(b) The Bilbe.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) The Tao Te Ching.

3. Why do Harold and Julia say they are in Tsau?
(a) To teach science.
(b) To teach English.
(c) To read Shakespeare in the schools.
(d) To teach math.

4. Who moderates the public meetings and debates?
(a) Nelson Denoon.
(b) The Mother Committee.
(c) An elected official.
(d) None of these.

5. Who says "I'm yours. I am" to the narrator?
(a) Nelson Denoon.
(b) Hector.
(c) Dineo.
(d) Mma Isang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What omen does the village receive on the night the narrator moves into Nelson's home?

2. Why is their arrival a great consternation in Tsau?

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

4. Who chooses the topics for the debates?

5. What does Nelson create on the women of the village that offends the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What weighs heavily on the narrator's mind about her and Nelson's relationship? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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