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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is always going wrong at the orphan farm?
(a) The orphans running away.
(b) The gas stove.
(c) Machinery.
(d) The bathroom plumbing.

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

3. What does the cattleman offer Mma Ramotswe?
(a) A lift home.
(b) Dried beef.
(c) Cows milk.
(d) One of his cattle.

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

5. Why is Mma Ramotswe surprised that Mma Kerileng cannot handle Mataila?
(a) Her place is well decorated.
(b) The housemother is famous for being able to handle problem children.
(c) Mataila is just a boy.
(d) The housemother knows how to keep a house.

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

7. How do the rains look this year?
(a) There will be a drought.
(b) There will be floods.
(c) It will only sprinkle.
(d) They will be good.

8. What is the tureen made from?
(a) Beans and other greens.
(b) Steaming pumpkin.
(c) Meat stew.
(d) Maize meal.

9. Why is Botswana so dry?
(a) God decided it would be.
(b) They ship all their water overseas.
(c) Rain evaporates before it hits the ground.
(d) They use too much water.

10. How large was Obed Ramotswe's herd?
(a) Five or six thousand cattle.
(b) Only sixty cattle.
(c) Two thousand cattle.
(d) Ten or twenty cattle.

11. What do most husbands do?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) Gamble.
(c) Fix things.
(d) Break things.

12. What does Puso drink instead of tea?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Hot chocolate.
(c) Warm milk.
(d) Sweetened water.

13. Why was marriage once a trap for women?
(a) Women had all the rights.
(b) Women had all the duties.
(c) Men would cage up their wives.
(d) Men had all the duties.

14. Why is the cook poisoning the family?
(a) So they will change his job.
(b) He wants to kill them.
(c) For fun.
(d) As revenge for taking him from Gaborone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do foreigners learn about Botswana when they criticize someone?

2. What does Mma Ramotswe see around everything?

3. What provides music inside Mma Ramotswe's van?

4. Who do we need according to the old Kgatla saying?

5. What is Mma Potokwane's weapon?

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