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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. This novel is the ________________ in a series of novels featuring Mma Ramotswe.

2. Who is the owner of the new business across town?

3. Mma Makutsi thinks that most men do not want to learn ____________________.

4. Mma Ramotswe is from which country?

5. What is the Botswana police agency?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Matekoni encounter when he comes to Mma Ramotswe's home to water the vegetable plants?

2. Who is Mr. Molefelo? What does he tell Mma Ramotswe when he comes to her office?

3. What is the difficulty that Mma Ramotswe faces now that affects both her personal and business lives?

4. How does Mma Makutsi obtain the typewriters necessary for her typing school?

5. Why does Mma Ramotswe find it necessary to create a diversion at the church service?

6. What consumes Mma Ramotswe's thoughts as the novel opens?

7. What does Mr. Molefelo tell Mma Ramotswe about his life in Gaborone as a student living with the Tsolamoseses?

8. What are the two sources of conflict that will run throughout the novel?

9. What situation did Mr. Molefelo find himself in with his girlfriend at the time? Why did he steal an item from the Tsolamoseses?

10. What seems to be Mr. Molefelo's intention by contacting Mma Ramotswe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Project into the future ten years after the end of the novel and write a brief synopsis for Mma Ramotswe's life. Will she still be running her detective agency? Will she have married Mr. Matekoni? Who will be present in her life? Where will she be living?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the book's title? What are some other possible titles for the book? List at least five and cite your reasons for each.

Essay Topic 3

Loneliness seems to be almost an unnamed character in the book. How pervasive is the sense of loneliness? Why does it have such a prevalent place in Mma Makutsi's life? Explain how an inanimate object or characteristic can be a character?

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