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

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

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

4. How does the narrator feel about her feelings for Nelson?
(a) She still considers him a very good friend, but isn't developing other feelings for her.
(b) She is a little worried at how deeply she feels for him.
(c) She is overjoyed and not worried at all.
(d) She surprisingly feels little emotion.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What of her mother's does the narrator accidentally back over with a car?

4. A direct confrontation develops between which two people as result of the debate?

5. What decision is the narrator struggling with regarding Tsau and Nelson Denoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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