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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. Who supports Nelson's ideas about guns in the village?

2. What prevents the narrator from attending the public debate on time?

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

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

5. What settlement is nearby Tsau?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The reader sees increasingly Nelson Denoon's need and desire to pull away from the governing of Tsau, but he is unable to do so. Explain three examples the author gives of this dilemma. Why does this dilemma exist?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator faces several perils in the desert on her way to Tsau. What are they? How does the way the narrator handle those challenges speak to her character and the way she is evolving in the story? Include the way the narrator feels about her journey and her accomplishments in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the exchange between Dineo and the narrator before she takes Nelson to Gaborone. Examine the way the relationship between the two women has evolved and how outside circumstances have effected each of them throughout the story. How has each character evolved?

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