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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 does Nelson drink with Harold?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Rum.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Scotch.

2. How long is Nelson imprisoned after the accusations are made against him?
(a) Two days.
(b) Three days.
(c) Twelve hours.
(d) One day.

3. Who has the gun checked out for a supposed lion sighting?
(a) Nelson.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mma Isang.
(d) Hector.

4. Who supports Nelson's ideas about guns in the village?
(a) No one.
(b) Dineo.
(c) Dorca.
(d) Mma Isang.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator doing when a group of villagers, led by Hector, come to speak with Nelson?

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

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

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

5. Which of the women does Nelson sleep with before the narrator arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator feel after Nelson is found in the desert and back in Tsau? What does this mean for their future?

3. Describe two of the political happenings in Chapter Six. What is their significance?

4. What does the narrator do the first time Nelson invites her to his house? Is this unexpected?

5. What shift occurs during the debate over God? Why does this happen?

6. Why does the scheduled debate over God bother the narrator so much? How does Nelson feel?

7. What upsets Nelson about the growing amount of bartering with Basarwa, a nearby settlement? What items does he not like?

8. 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?

9. The narrator is strongly against Nelson's trip to Tikwe. Why? What literary tool could the author be using in this section?

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

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