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

2. What happened to Snowball?
(a) He got into a bar fight.
(b) His dinghy collapsed.
(c) He got thrown into jail for being subversive.
(d) He left town.

3. Bessie feels that the South African blacks have a desperate longing to bring out their own what?
(a) Innate abilities.
(b) Creativeness.
(c) Self-sufficiency.
(d) Pride.

4. Bessie says that she grew up knowing only whom?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her real mother.
(c) Her adoptive mother.
(d) Her father.

5. What does Bessie think that the blacks in Cape Town believe?
(a) They shall overcome.
(b) Their culture will survive.
(c) The rest of the world will save them.
(d) They are doomed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did their landlady do to Snowball despite Bessie's protests?

2. What did the American woman send Bessie?

3. According to Bessie, Serowe consists of African people and what?

4. In "Letter from South Africa," what do may refugees not want to do?

5. In "Village people," Bessie states that African peace is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What facts about her parentage were brutally told to Bessie by the magistrate and the missionary?

2. In "A Gentle People," what are Bessie's feelings regarding the black people of Cape Town?

3. In "Village People," how does Bessie describe poverty in Africa?

4. In "The Old Woman," what is Bessie referring to when she says "Gods walk around Africa barefoot with nothing"?

5. Why is there no rage and oppression in Botswana?

6. How does Bessie describe Botswana in 1964?

7. In 1966, what changes were made regarding refugees in Botswana?

8. In 1982, Bessie writes about her reaction when people discussed her writing. Why did she get so frustrated?

9. What are Bessie's beliefs about racists?

10. In "An Unspeakable Crime," why does Bessie feel discouraged by the South African blacks?

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