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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. Where does Precious go when she leaves home?

2. What did Mma Ramotswe's father do?

3. Who is the friend that Mma Ramotswe visits?

4. What confession does Nandira make to Mma Ramotswe?

5. Why does Obed's cousin come to look after Precious?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concerns does Paliwalar have that prompt him to contact Mma Ramotswe?

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

3. How does Mma Ramotswe meet her husband?

4. What steps does Precious take to open her detective agency?

5. How does Mma Ramotswe track down the truth about Peter Malatsi and what does she discover?

6. How does Mma Ramotswe help Happy Bapetsi?

7. What issue, common in the mines of South Africa, does Obed witness that causes him to quit his job?

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

9. What do Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and Mma Ramotswe discuss while they visit?

10. What do the contents of the crocodile's stomach reveal?

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

Who does Mma Ramotswe go to see regarding the item Matekoni found? What does he reveal to her? What question does she ask where the answer surprises her? Why will the police have only limited interest in a crime of this nature? What plan does Mma Ramotswe devise to uncover the truth?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the 'handsome man'? Why is his wife suspicious of him? What do she, Mma Ramotswe, and all women in Botswana have in common? What does his wife want Mma Ramotswe to do? How does Mma Ramotswe provide the information she is looking for? Is Mma Ramotswe successful in solving this case? What is the main reason that this client is never charged a fee for Mma Ramotswe's services?

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