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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the debate over in Chapter 7?

2. What does the narrator do while Nelson sleeps?

3. How do Harold Mace and Julia Rodden arrive in Tsau?

4. What does Dorcas accuse Nelson of the night he and the narrator argue?

5. Who has the gun checked out for a supposed lion sighting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when the narrator invites Harold and Julia to their home for dinner?

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

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

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

8. There continues to be social unrest in Tsau. The village is now split regarding the presence of the night men. What does the narrator learn about the disagreement? How does she feel about it?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Norman Rush is a male author writing from a female point of view. How do you think this impacts the telling of the story? Is this approach unusual in literature? Why or why not? How do you think the perspective would have changed if it had been written by a woman? Be sure to explain your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Mother Committee and the powerful women involved. This experimental village is meant to give women rights and powers that they don't have in ordinary society. However, based on the characters you've just described, what are the differences and similarities between men in ordinary society at that time and the women in Tsau?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Four we see the relationship between Nelson and the narrator evolving. What examples does the author give of this evolution and future development? How do each of the characters feel about this progression in their relationship?

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