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

2. What does Mma Ramotswe check her shoes for?
(a) Scorpions.
(b) Termites.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Poison.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the Scottish Hospital at Molepolole?

2. What do Motswana always like?

3. Why does nothing ever happen in the cook's village?

4. What does Mma Ramotswe see around everything?

5. What does Mma Ramotswe give the Bushman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Mma Ramotswe's surge of grief?

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

3. Does the narrative suggest deceit as a tactic?

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

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

6. What is the significance of Patricia's beauty?

7. How does Chapter 10 start?

8. What happens in Chapter 9?

9. How do the characters view the past?

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

(see the answer keys)

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