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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people think Mma Ramotswe and J.LB. Matekoni will be happy doing together?
(a) Selling their businesses.
(b) Eating expensive meat.
(c) Drinking tea.
(d) Saving money.

2. What is the most important thing about Mma Makutsi's position?
(a) She gets paid according to her worth.
(b) She has to work alone.
(c) That she is in a position of authority.
(d) That she does what she is meant to do.

3. How does the Government Man enter the office?
(a) He has his Government driver knock on the door.
(b) He honks the horn of his official Mercedes-Benz.
(c) In the proper Botswana manner.
(d) He opens the door and lets himself in.

4. Where would Mr. JLB Matekoni usually be if the office is empty?
(a) With his difficult apprentices.
(b) Sitting on top of a car in the workshop.
(c) Out drinking.
(d) At lunch.

5. Why does a mother insist her sons can't be murderers?
(a) A mother cannot deal with the shame.
(b) Mothers believe what their sons tell them.
(c) Mothers will protect them from even the law.
(d) The man remains a small boy to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might embarrass the younger apprentice?

2. Why does Mma Ramotswe think that women actually do not talk so much?

3. Who has JLB Matekoni not paid?

4. Why is Note Mokoti capable of being a murderer?

5. What worries JLB Matekoni?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do her actions foreshadow?

2. What else is important about this unusual introduction?

3. What is interesting about the way the Government Man and his family are introduced?

4. How does Chapter 8 start?

5. What does this foreshadowing hint at?

6. How does the narrative deal with AIDS?

7. How does Mma Ramotswe react to Mma Makutsi's emerging confidence?

8. What other theme does this character bring to light?

9. How does Chapter 7 start?

10. What does this suggest?

(see the answer keys)

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