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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 tribe does the narrator come across during her search for Nelson in the desert?
(a) Botswana.
(b) Basanwa.
(c) None of these.
(d) Baherero.

2. Who does the narrator go to in order to get Nelson out of Tsau?
(a) The Mother Committee.
(b) Dineo.
(c) Dorcas.
(d) Mma Isang.

3. Who does the narrator pour her heart out to when she is upset?
(a) Dineo.
(b) Mma Isang.
(c) Mmo.
(d) Baph.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision is the narrator struggling with regarding Tsau and Nelson Denoon?

2. Why does the narrator attend some childbirths in the birthing house?

3. What glass work has Nelson been creating based on a glass sculpture he created as a child?

4. Why is their arrival a great consternation in Tsau?

5. Why do the villagers disagree with Nelson's insistence on hand washing and sanitation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What requests does Dineo make of the narrator in order for her to be able to take Nelson to Gaborone?

2. There continues to be social unrest in Tsau. The village is now split regarding the presence of the night men. What does the narrator learn about the disagreement? How does she feel about it?

3. How does the narrator react when Nelson shows her a political diagram of the women in the village? Why? How does Nelson react? Why? Are their reactions characteristic of them?

4. What new sign of trouble emerges in Tsau after the issue with the guns and the bartering have been called into question?

5. What argument do Nelson and the narrator have the day after the debate? Why is this significant?

6. How does the village react to Nelson and the narrator becoming a couple? What happens that night?

7. What are some of the issues that Nelson Denoon and the narrator debate and discuss?

8. How does Nelson react to the arrival of Harold Mace and Julia Rodden in Tsau?

9. What honor does the narrator receive in Tsau? How does she feel about what she's been asked to do?

10. What changes do we see in Nelson and the narrator as a result of Nelson's malaria?

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