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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 information does Mma Ramotswe want from Gotso?

2. What is the name of Mma Ramotswe's maid?

3. How does Maketsi respond to Mma Ramotswe's suggestion?

4. What does Gotso tell Mma Ramotswe when she returns the bag?

5. Where does Mma Ramotswe take the boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mma Ramotswe handle Charlie Gotso when she meets him, and what information does she refuse to divulge and why?

2. What issues do Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni share and have in common in their lives?

3. How does Mma Ramotswe finally resolve the case for her friend Hector?

4. What does Mma Notshi reveal to Mma Ramotswe after Mma Ramotswe's threats about arrest?

5. What information does Dr. Gulubane give Mma Ramotswe about the contents of the medicine bag?

6. After confirming that he is indeed the missing son of the teacher, what does Mma Ramotswe do?

7. What does Mma Ramotswe explain to Mma Notshi after learning that her husband is not there?

8. Before Mma Ramotswe can do anything more with the Gotso case, who comes to her for help, and what is the issue he needs her help with?

9. Where does Mma Ramotswe go next and who does she pose as this time?

10. How does Mma Ramotswe get the information needed by Alice Busang?

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

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

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?

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