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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 Boeta L revert to when no one accepts his cause?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Religion.
(c) Madness.
(d) Drink.

2. What does Bessie call Gladys Mgudlandlu?
(a) The people's savior.
(b) The innocent escapist.
(c) The exuberant innocent.
(d) The ample artist.

3. According to Bessie, what had the blacks in Cape Town not made use of?
(a) Government issued cash coupons.
(b) Food coupons.
(c) Special travel privileges.
(d) Education.

4. Bessie Head was born in what year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1937.

5. What did the Durban Magistrate Court tell Bessie?
(a) She had to leave the country.
(b) Her mother was white.
(c) She was a ward of the state.
(d) Her father was a criminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Technologies and ideas in South Africa generally filter in from where?

2. What race was Bessie's mother?

3. How does Bessie describe the Cape Town whites?

4. What was the trend in Atteridgeville in 1964?

5. In 1965, what did Bessie write that the people of South Africa need to find in order to live together?

(see the answer key)

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