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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Bessie learn to hate?
(a) The legal system.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Judges.
(d) The social service system.
2. How did Bessie define culture?
(a) The core of people.
(b) The bareroots of a people.
(c) The personality of a people.
(d) Where we all come from.
3. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her adoptive mother.
(c) Her real mother.
(d) Herself.
4. In 1963, what did Bessie encourage her readers to do?
(a) Fight against the status quo.
(b) Flee.
(c) Love their neighbor.
(d) Look to God to save them.
5. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?
(a) Practice Christianity.
(b) Leave.
(c) Be controlled.
(d) Adhere to western culture.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?
2. In 1965, what did Bessie write that the people of South Africa need to find in order to live together?
3. In "Village people," what kind of porridge do they have for every meal?
4. In "chibuku beer and independence," who sent free beer for the independence celebration?
5. Where was Bessie sent at age 13?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Bessie say about refugees and friendship in "Letter from South Africa"?
2. How does Bessie describe Botswana in 1964?
3. In 1966, what changes were made regarding refugees in Botswana?
4. What facts about her parentage were brutally told to Bessie by the magistrate and the missionary?
5. What more compassionate details concerning her mother did Bessie learn over time?
6. In "The Woman From America," what was the biggest threat that this woman and her husband posed to the village?
7. What lasting effect did the treatment by the missionaries have on Bessie?
8. Why do the South African blacks relate to the artist, Gladys Mgudlandlu?
9. Why is Bessie so drawn to the American woman in "Woman from America"?
10. Why is there no rage and oppression in Botswana?
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