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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first job Samuel found in Gaborone?

2. What does Mma Ramotswe check her shoes for?

3. Where has Mma Kerileng seen Mma Ramotswe before?

4. Why is the cook not contented?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens in Chapter 9?

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

4. What opinion on morality between genders is implied?

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

6. How do the two different investigations parallel?

7. How does Chapter 17 start?

8. What connection is there to the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?

9. Does the narrative suggest deceit as a tactic?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the differences between Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi. How are their approaches different? What are their strengths and weaknesses as business-women?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two characters and examine their lives at the start of the book. Compare how their lives have changed by the end of the narrative. What motivates these changes?

Essay Topic 3

How does McCall Smith depict the Botswana society in the book? How does today's society view McCall Smith's depiction of Africa? Do you think his portrayal is accurate?

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