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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 (pages 409-436).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the relationship between Martin Wade and the narrator dissolve?
(a) Martin is far more ascetic than the narrator.
(b) Martin is very opposed to the luxury the narrator represents as an American.
(c) Martin's involvement in dangerous political activities.
(d) All of these.

2. Who does the narrator ask to take her donkey back from the community in order to go get Nelson?
(a) Dineo.
(b) Hector.
(c) Mma Isang.
(d) Dorcas.

3. Who is Mma Isang trying to keep from the new arch ceremony?
(a) Hector and Dorcas.
(b) Dineo.
(c) The night men.
(d) Nelson and the narrator.

4. Why do Harold and Julia say they are in Tsau?
(a) To teach science.
(b) To teach math.
(c) To read Shakespeare in the schools.
(d) To teach English.

5. What mistake does the narrator make after finding Nelson Denoon?
(a) She uses an experimental outhouse.
(b) She knocks over an experimental outhouse.
(c) She insults the people Nelson is staying with.
(d) She insults Nelson's project.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness overtakes Nelson for forty-eight hours?

2. Who must the narrator pretend she does not know while in Tsau?

3. What does Grace tell the narrator during their lunch in a restaurant?

4. What does Nelson believe African village-societies can offer Africans?

5. Why does the narrator attempt to measure Nelson with a measuring tape?

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