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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 is the name of the Tsau governing body?
(a) The Sister Committee.
(b) The Mother Committee.
(c) The Denoon Council.
(d) The Mother Council.

2. After the narrator has been in Tsau a couple of days, who tells her the village has no room for one more and she must leave as soon as possible?
(a) Isang Mma.
(b) Mma Isang.
(c) No one told her this.
(d) Dineo.

3. Who is Grace with when the narrator bumps into her in town?
(a) A drug dealer.
(b) A powerful Boer.
(c) A boyfriend.
(d) A personal body guard.

4. How is Grace Denoon described by the narrator when she runs into Grace?
(a) Acting strangely.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) All of these.
(d) Obviously rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Martin Wade?

2. What month is the narrator traveling to Tsau?

3. What does the narrator realize is part of Grace's problem at the party?

4. How many members are on Tsau's governing body?

5. How many homesteads are in Tsau?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the narrator's reaction to meeting Nelson Denoon. How is he different from her expectations?

4. Grace Denoon and the narrator have lunch together after the narrator bumps into Grace while shopping for supplies. What do they discuss? What does this conversation represent?

5. What does the sandstorm at the end of the American diplomat's party represent?

6. Why does the narrator have such difficulty finding the place where Nelson Denoon is rumored to be staying?

7. The narrator has conflicting feelings about Nelson Denoon after talking to him further in the squatter settlement. What are they?

8. What does the narrator notice as she approaches Tsau? What memories does it evoke?

9. What does the reader learn about the narrator in Chapter 1? What characteristics does she display?

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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