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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is Nelson gone from Tsau on horseback before the narrator believes something has happened?
(a) Five days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Eight days.
(d) Seven days.

2. What illness overtakes Nelson for forty-eight hours?
(a) Fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Hives.
(d) Stomach flu.

3. A direct confrontation develops between which two people as result of the debate?
(a) Dorcas and Dineo.
(b) Nelson and Hector.
(c) Hector and the narrator.
(d) Nelson and Dorcas.

4. Who pulls the villagers together to put on a performance?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Nelson Denoon.
(c) Mma Isang.
(d) Dineo.

5. What does Nelson read while in jail?
(a) None of these.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) The Tao Te Ching.
(d) The Bilbe.

6. Why is their arrival a great consternation in Tsau?
(a) Outsiders are always unwelcome.
(b) All of these.
(c) The village is supposed to be a secret.
(d) The villagers are suspicious of them.

7. Why does the narrator attempt to measure Nelson with a measuring tape?
(a) She feels she has to get his true dimensions.
(b) She feels she has find his exact measurements for her study.
(c) She is creating a blanket for him.
(d) She is measuring him for a new pair of pants.

8. What does the group chant to convince Nelson they need guns in the village?
(a) "Enfields!"
(b) "Rifles!"
(c) "Winston!"
(d) "Guns!"

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

10. What is the narrator doing when a group of villagers, led by Hector, come to speak with Nelson?
(a) She is cutting Nelson's hair.
(b) She is preparing breakfast.
(c) She is cleaning vegetables.
(d) She is sleeping.

11. Who is Dorcas' long-lost brother?
(a) Raboupi.
(b) Hector.
(c) Jose.
(d) Dineo.

12. What fact do a couple of women ask the narrator to confirm?
(a) Her mother is poor.
(b) All of these.
(c) She has no income.
(d) She has no father.

13. What of her mother's does the narrator accidentally back over with a car?
(a) Groceries.
(b) A gardening set.
(c) A briefcase.
(d) A suitcase.

14. Who says "I'm yours. I am" to the narrator?
(a) Hector.
(b) Nelson Denoon.
(c) Dineo.
(d) Mma Isang.

15. Where does Nelson ask the narrator to move into his home?
(a) During work.
(b) A public tea.
(c) Near the edge of the desert.
(d) A party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tendencies does Nelson say males have in general?

2. Where is the village of Tsau located?

3. What kind of new project does Nelson Denoon propose?

4. What profession are Harold and Julia a part of?

5. What does Nelson's reaction to the narrator's attempts to cheer him up bring to the narrator's mind?

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