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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. Why is Mma Ramotswe surprised that the cook left Gaborone?
(a) There is more work for a cook there.
(b) He would of had access to better cooking utensils there.
(c) He would have been better fed there.
(d) He would have been paid more there.

2. Who is the one Mma Ramotswe should watch?
(a) The cattleman.
(b) The boy with air in his head.
(c) The old woman.
(d) The firstborn.

3. What did the Government instruct people to do during the last bad drought?
(a) Burn their crops.
(b) Slaughter their cattle.
(c) Stop drinking water.
(d) Stop taking baths.

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

5. How does Mma Ramotswe feel about dogs?
(a) She adores them.
(b) She hates them with a passion.
(c) She tolerates them.
(d) She finds them foul smelling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mma Ramotswe notice about the stew?

2. What do you not do as the guest of a house?

3. Why was marriage once a trap for women?

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

5. What language does Mma Potokwane use with Mataila?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does the narrative similarly imply that Mma Makutsi is beautiful?

2. What is the significance of the scorpion story?

3. How does the narrative imply that Motholeli is beautiful?

4. How does Chapter 17 start?

5. What is the relationship between compassion and morality here?

6. What is the significance of Mma Ramotswe's nostalgia?

7. What similar technique is used by both women?

8. How does Chapter 10 start?

9. How does the story of the Governmant Man progress?

10. What is on Mma Makutsi's mind at the end of chapter 15?

(see the answer keys)

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