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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. How old is the narrator when she starts her journey to Gaborone at the beginning of the book?
(a) 31-years-old.
(b) 30-years-old.
(c) 32-years-old.
(d) 29-years-old.

2. Who grabs the narrator by the hips and pushes her forward after Nelson Denoon's speech?
(a) "Z".
(b) Nelson Denoon.
(c) Wade Martin.
(d) Grace Denoon.

3. Who does the narrator learn about a party from where she may meet Nelson Denoon?
(a) The owners of the home she is house sitting at.
(b) Grace Denoon.
(c) "Z".
(d) Martin Wade.

4. What does Nelson Denoon suggest African's should harness the power of?
(a) The sun.
(b) The waterways.
(c) The local people.
(d) The wind.

5. What does Nelson Denoon represent to the narrator?
(a) The apex of a successful career in social service.
(b) An unattainable dream.
(c) The apex of a successful academic career.
(d) A desperate and unsuccessful attempt to change African society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is the narrator traveling to Tsau?

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

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

4. Where does "Z" offer to take the narrator when she first meets him?

5. What is the narrator doing when she bumps into Grace Denoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Nelson Denoon tells the narrator at the squatters settlement that there is no place for her on his project. However, she is packing anyway. Why? What does this say about her character?

2. What happens when the narrator is summoned before the Mother Committee? What must she do to stay in Tsau?

3. How does land ownership and currency work in Tsau? What observations does the narrator make?

4. What feelings does the narrator have as a result of visiting Victoria Falls with Giles? Why?

5. What does the narrator obsess about losing after her donkey runs away? Why?

6. What does the narrator pretend to be when she enters Tsau? Why?

7. What does "intellectual love" mean in the book?

8. What secret does the narrator learn from "Z"?

9. What happens between the narrator and Nelson Denoon when she first finds the place he is staying?

10. What does Dineo question about the narrator's cover story after the narrator has been in Tsau for a few days and why?

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