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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 of her mother's does the narrator accidentally back over with a car?
(a) A suitcase.
(b) A briefcase.
(c) Groceries.
(d) A gardening set.

2. Who makes the statement "Time is an ape"?
(a) Nelson Denoon.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Browen.
(d) Hiram.

3. What does Nelson plan for the future of Tsau?
(a) He will gradually phase himself out.
(b) None of these.
(c) He doesn't plan on letting the women run the village indefinitely.
(d) He will always be involved in the village's leadership.

4. 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.

5. What kind of new project does Nelson Denoon propose?
(a) Something to outlaw secret bank accounts.
(b) All of these.
(c) An essay against violence.
(d) Something to outlaw bank secrecy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What illness overtakes Nelson for forty-eight hours?

3. What change does the new Mother Committee make?

4. Who believes that the mysterious "lends itself too easily to liars and liars are the enemy"?

5. How does the narrator feel about being asked to be on the snake team?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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