View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the village of Tsau located?

2. How long is Nelson imprisoned after the accusations are made against him?

3. Who does the narrator pour her heart out to when she is upset?

4. Who is elected to the Mother Committee's second chair?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What new sign of trouble emerges in Tsau after the issue with the guns and the bartering have been called into question?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the exchange between Dineo and the narrator that ends in the bathhouse. What message is Dineo trying to send the narrator through her conversation and her actions?

Essay Topic 2

The relationship between blacks and whites in Africa has changed throughout history. Research the history of the Botswana area and create a time line of facts, changes, and political movements. Explain how the history of the area is important to the racial climate in the story, the characters' actions, and how it impacts the relationships in the story.

Essay Topic 3

What are the social implications of a village like Tsau being cut off from the rest of the African continent? How does the author address these implications? What examples are there?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,415 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample