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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. How old is the boy who has gone missing?

2. What does the older man do to try to distract the boy?

3. What does Mma Ramotswe agree to do for Mr. Patel?

4. Who does he specifically suggest?

5. What does she want Precious to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mma Ramotswe suggests that Mr. Patel be less controlling?

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

3. What kind of family are the Patels?

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

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

6. Why does Mma Ramotswe decide to open a detective agency?

7. How did the young boy disappear?

8. What alternate avenue of education does Precious get as a child and what is she taught there?

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

10. How does Mma Ramotswe help Happy Bapetsi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What case does Mma Ramotswe deal with after she concludes her case with Mr. Patel? How does she determine whether or not the client is right in her suspicions of her husband? Who does she turn to for information and what information is she looking for? How does she confirm the truth? How is this case successfully resolved?

Essay Topic 2

Where does Mma Ramotswe go that reminds her of her childhood? What dangers are ever present in her mind as she travels through this region? What other considerations are there for traveling in this kind of environment? What differences does Mma Ramotswe recall during her trip as compared to the trip taken when she was younger? What promise did she make herself then? Is it fulfilled?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Hector Lepodise? What does he need Mma Ramotswe's help with? What is the first thing that she recommends to him and what is his reaction? Why does he feel so strongly about this? What information does Mma Ramotswe uncover that resolves the issue? What warning does she issue the man and his council?

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