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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does drought mean?
(a) Thin cattle.
(b) Fat pigs.
(c) Full stomachs.
(d) Ripe crops.

2. What can't people in town usually afford?
(a) The eggs of birds.
(b) Roots from the ground.
(c) Grubs.
(d) Duiker.

3. What can no mother dislike?
(a) Her grandson.
(b) Her granddaughter.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her son.

4. What can be used to end a pregnancy?
(a) Too much sunlight.
(b) Tree roots.
(c) Tree bark.
(d) Shrubs.

5. Why are the orphans usually brought to the farm?
(a) Their family has abandoned them.
(b) Their father has died.
(c) Their mother has died.
(d) Their family have abused them.

6. Who made the fruitcake?
(a) The housemothers.
(b) Mma Potokwane.
(c) The senior girls of the farm.
(d) The younger orphans.

7. What did Samuel's father give him for Gaborone?
(a) Money.
(b) A bus ticket.
(c) A bag of food.
(d) A watch.

8. What does Mma Ramotswe first see in Mataila's eyes?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Fear.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Vacancy.

9. What was the first job Samuel found in Gaborone?
(a) Cook.
(b) Construction worker.
(c) Bellboy.
(d) Fisherman.

10. Why was Mma Ramotswe frightened of the Bushman?
(a) They are very slow.
(b) They carry obscure medicines.
(c) They are twice her size.
(d) They carry arrows.

11. What does Mma Ramotswe check her shoes for?
(a) Poison.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Termites.

12. Who does Motholeli help by nature?
(a) Those older than her.
(b) People in wheelchairs.
(c) People in crutches.
(d) Those younger than her.

13. Why does Mma Ramotswe like farms?
(a) They remind her of her adulthood.
(b) They remind her of her husband.
(c) They remind her of her father.
(d) They remind her of the true values of her people.

14. What language does Mma Potokwane use with Mataila?
(a) Mosarwa.
(b) Swahili.
(c) San.
(d) Setswana.

15. Which smell does Mma Ramotswe find marvelous?
(a) The smell of dust and earth.
(b) Wood smoke.
(c) The bush in the rain.
(d) The smell of boiling onion soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the Scottish Hospital at Molepolole?

2. What is the Botswana always?

3. What does Puso drink instead of tea?

4. What habit was picked up from colonial administrators?

5. What might prevent Motholeli from having children?

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