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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 characterizes a bad girl?
(a) Working as a prostitute.
(b) Manipulative.
(c) Only wanting to have a good time.
(d) Married to an older man.

2. Who does Mma Ramotswe learn everyone dislikes?
(a) The Government Man.
(b) The younger brother's wife.
(c) The farm's chef.
(d) The wicked old woman.

3. What can no mother dislike?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her granddaughter.
(d) Her grandson.

4. Why does Mma Ramotswe not care about calories?
(a) She has a fast metabolism.
(b) Rra likes bigger women.
(c) She works really hard.
(d) She is traditionally built.

5. How do women acquire respect in a tribal marriage?
(a) By paying for it with money.
(b) By getting older.
(c) By asking for it.
(d) By bearing daughters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What habit was picked up from colonial administrators?

3. What does Puso drink instead of tea?

4. What is the boy named Mataila?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mma Ramotswe's task compare to Mma Makutsi's?

2. What similar technique is used by both women?

3. What opinion on morality between genders is implied?

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

5. Does Mma Makutsi parallel this deceit?

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

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

8. What happens in Chapter 9?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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