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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 racist belief does the narrator's mother hold?
(a) All white people should be in superior positions.
(b) All black people are funny.
(c) All Hispanic people are uneducated.
(d) All black people are mean.

2. Who is Dorcas' long-lost brother?
(a) Dineo.
(b) Raboupi.
(c) Jose.
(d) Hector.

3. Who does the narrator go to in order to get Nelson out of Tsau?
(a) The Mother Committee.
(b) Dorcas.
(c) Dineo.
(d) Mma Isang.

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

5. What is the narrator doing when a group of villagers, led by Hector, come to speak with Nelson?
(a) She is cutting Nelson's hair.
(b) She is cleaning vegetables.
(c) She is preparing breakfast.
(d) She is sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. After arguing with Nelson over Hector, where does the narrator go?

2. Who does Nelson bring gifts for the night he comes to get the narrator?

3. Who does the narrator ask to take her donkey back from the community in order to go get Nelson?

4. What settlement is nearby Tsau?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel after Nelson is found in the desert and back in Tsau? What does this mean for their future?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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