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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has a sweet tooth?
(a) Mma Ramotswe.
(b) Puso.
(c) Rose.
(d) Motholeli.

2. What habit was picked up from colonial administrators?
(a) Whitewashing,
(b) Morning breakfast.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Poisoning.

3. What could Samuel remember as a boy?
(a) The age of all the people in his village.
(b) The names of all the countries of the world.
(c) The names of all the leaders of Botswana.
(d) The names of all the cattle in his village.

4. Who do we need according to the old Kgatla saying?
(a) A good father.
(b) A religious belief.
(c) Nobody else.
(d) A person to make our little god on earth.

5. What is the boy named Mataila?
(a) Mataila means orphan in Botswana.
(b) The boy does not know his name.
(c) It is the name of his mother.
(d) It is the name of his father.

6. What do you not do as the guest of a house?
(a) Go in under false colors.
(b) Tell them why you are there.
(c) Soil the bed.
(d) Steal.

7. Who claims the credit for building Botswana?
(a) The police.
(b) The housemothers.
(c) The business owners.
(d) The politicians.

8. What will the sun do when it rises?
(a) Distill the land.
(b) Understate the sky.
(c) Coarsen the world.
(d) Dry the painting.

9. What does Mr Potolani do with the profit from his stores?
(a) He buys more stores.
(b) He saves most of it in the bank.
(c) He gives most of it away.
(d) He burns it.

10. Why would the children be unable to go back to the bush?
(a) They have lost their skills.
(b) They have forgotten how to get there.
(c) Mma Ramotswe is holding them captive.
(d) The Mosarwa would not accept them back.

11. What sign do secrets leave on the face?
(a) Wrinkles.
(b) Bruises.
(c) Shadows.
(d) Creases.

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

13. What do Motswana always like?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Tureen.
(c) Heavy flooding.
(d) Dried beef.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of bull is all talk?

2. What characterizes a bad girl?

3. Who does Mma Ramotswe learn everyone dislikes?

4. What is a poisoner usually like?

5. Why was Mma Ramotswe frightened of the Bushman?

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