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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 position is she hired for?

2. What does one of Obed's former white bosses assist him with?

3. What is physically different about Mr. Patel?

4. What business does he own and operate?

5. What is the final thing she does in this case?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Precious leave home, and where does she go?

2. How does Mma Ramotswe meet her husband?

3. What does Obed do that results in Precious being able to open a detective agency?

4. What happens to Precious when she tells Note she is pregnant?

5. What does Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni suggest that Mma Ramotswe do to increase her revenue and build a reputation for herself?

6. Why does the young boy get into the truck with two strangers?

7. How does Mma Ramotswe proceed with this case?

8. What concerns do J.L.B. Matekoni and Mma Ramotswe share about the missing boy, believed to have been kidnapped?

9. How did the young boy disappear?

10. Why does Mma Malatsi come to Mma Ramotswe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Mma Ramotswe help Mma Malatsi? What problem does Mma Malatsi present her with? How does Mma Ramotswe begin to track down the answers to this mystery? What services does she employ to help her? What skills does Mma Ramotswe demonstrate that have nothing to do with her job as a detective? What methods might she have employed were those skills not available to her?

Essay Topic 2

What exactly is a red herring where writing is concerned? What is the red herring in this novel? When is it introduced? What is the purpose of a red herring in a story? What other reasons might an author have for including one? How might that mystery have been resolved had it not been a red herring?

Essay Topic 3

What information does Mma Ramotswe get from Charlie Gotso? What does she give him in return? What information does Gotso want from her and why does she refuse to reveal it? Who does Mma want to meet with? What does she tell Gotso she can get him in return? What is the likelihood of this and why?

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