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

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

3. What had never happened before to a child?
(a) Being refused food.
(b) Being locked up.
(c) Being refused schooling.
(d) Separation from the other children.

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

5. Where has Mma Kerileng seen Mma Ramotswe before?
(a) On the street,
(b) In the newspaper.
(c) On the television.
(d) At the local shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the boy named Mataila?

2. What will Mma Ramotswe bring according to the young woman?

3. What did Samuel's father give him for Gaborone?

4. Why would the children be unable to go back to the bush?

5. Who does Mma Ramotswe learn everyone dislikes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does the narrative suggest deceit as a tactic?

2. How do the two different investigations parallel?

3. What similar technique is used by both women?

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

5. What is the significance of the bride's father being named?

6. What is the significance of the scorpion story?

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

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

9. Does Mma Makutsi parallel this deceit?

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

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