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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 does Mma Ramotswe tell Mma Notshi?

2. What does Maketsi think that Dr.Komoti is doing?

3. Where did Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni discover this?

4. What does he ask Mma Ramotswe again?

5. How old does he estimate the child likely is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After she has concluded the Lepodise case, who does Mma Ramotswe go to see, and what is she looking for?

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

5. How does Mma Ramotswe manage to proceed without giving away the real reason for her interest in the case?

6. What else does Mma Ramotswe learn from Mma Notshi on the way to where the boy is tending the cattle?

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

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

9. Why is this worry compounded by the identity of the person who owns the van that the medicine bag was found in?

10. When Mma Ramotswe's van breaks down on the way back, what does she do and what is the outcome?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Who does Mma Ramotswe call when her van breaks down? What is her fear and what does Matekoni assure her? What does Matekoni manage to accomplish? Which fear of Mma Ramotswe's does Matekoni manage to overcome? How does he do this, and what is the final outcome?

Essay Topic 3

How does the young boy disappear in this story? Why is he susceptible to the methods employed by those involved in his disappearance? How is he distracted until it is too late? What make him so vulnerable? Why are police seemingly reluctant to become involved in this case? What evidence supports this? How is it handled by Mme Ramotswe?

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