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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, In Exile, Botswana, 1964-1979, Preface, Sketches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bessie have to start doing in 1966?
(a) See a psychiatrist.
(b) Take medication.
(c) Report regularly to the police.
(d) Get her manuscript censored.

2. In "The woman from America," who does Bessie say are always in the majority?
(a) Men.
(b) The impoverished.
(c) Those who fear.
(d) Whites.

3. What was Bessie's biggest frustration in "An Unspeakable Crime"?
(a) Blacks were just giving in to the white government.
(b) She couldn't get her stories published.
(c) She had no family.
(d) Violence was overtaking common sense.

4. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?
(a) United States.
(b) North Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) Europe.

5. How does Bessie describe the people from the place that the American woman hails from?
(a) Creative and beautiful.
(b) Exciting and adventurous.
(c) Lazy and spoiled.
(d) Wealthy but caring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raised Bessie?

2. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?

3. In "Sketches," how does Bessie describe Botswana?

4. What did Bessie learn to hate?

5. Bessie says that the African people want to develop how?

(see the answer key)

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