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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 change does the new Mother Committee make?
2. Where does the narrator want to take Nelson?
3. What does the group chant to convince Nelson they need guns in the village?
4. Who is elected to the Mother Committee's second chair?
5. What fact do a couple of women ask the narrator to confirm?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nelson react to the arrival of Harold Mace and Julia Rodden in Tsau?
2. What are some of the issues that Nelson Denoon and the narrator debate and discuss?
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 weighs heavily on the narrator's mind about her and Nelson's relationship? Why?
5. 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?
6. How are children born in Tsau? How does the narrator react to the birthing process?
7. What new sign of trouble emerges in Tsau after the issue with the guns and the bartering have been called into question?
8. What upsets Nelson about the growing amount of bartering with Basarwa, a nearby settlement? What items does he not like?
9. How does the village react to Nelson and the narrator becoming a couple? What happens that night?
10. What changes do we see in Nelson and the narrator as a result of Nelson's malaria?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nelson essentially turns his invitation to the narrator to come live with him into a PR event. Based on the way Nelson has handled his relationship with the narrator to this point and how he feels about village politics, why did he ask her in this way? What is the author demonstrating about Nelson's personality?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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