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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the child eating?
(a) Beans and pumpkin.
(b) Bread with syrup.
(c) Maize with gravy.
(d) Stew.

2. Why would the children be unable to go back to the bush?
(a) They have forgotten how to get there.
(b) They have lost their skills.
(c) Mma Ramotswe is holding them captive.
(d) The Mosarwa would not accept them back.

3. Why does Mma Ramotswe not care about calories?
(a) Rra likes bigger women.
(b) She works really hard.
(c) She is traditionally built.
(d) She has a fast metabolism.

4. What is the tureen made from?
(a) Beans and other greens.
(b) Steaming pumpkin.
(c) Maize meal.
(d) Meat stew.

5. What does drought mean?
(a) Full stomachs.
(b) Thin cattle.
(c) Ripe crops.
(d) Fat pigs.

6. What characterizes a bad girl?
(a) Manipulative.
(b) Only wanting to have a good time.
(c) Working as a prostitute.
(d) Married to an older man.

7. What is a sign of good housekeeping?
(a) Spiders and termite trails.
(b) Well dusted ceiling boards.
(c) A bed with ironed sheets.
(d) When a room smells like rain.

8. What do chefs wear in Gaborone?
(a) White socks.
(b) White hats.
(c) White stockings.
(d) White sweatbands.

9. What do Motswana always like?
(a) Heavy flooding.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Tureen.
(d) Dried beef.

10. What can't people in town usually afford?
(a) The eggs of birds.
(b) Roots from the ground.
(c) Grubs.
(d) Duiker.

11. What does Mr Potolani do with the profit from his stores?
(a) He saves most of it in the bank.
(b) He gives most of it away.
(c) He buys more stores.
(d) He burns it.

12. What did Samuel's father give him for Gaborone?
(a) A bus ticket.
(b) A bag of food.
(c) A watch.
(d) Money.

13. Why is Mma Ramotswe surprised that the cook left Gaborone?
(a) There is more work for a cook there.
(b) He would have been paid more there.
(c) He would of had access to better cooking utensils there.
(d) He would have been better fed there.

14. What is the Botswana always?
(a) Hot.
(b) Windy.
(c) Thirsty.
(d) Hungry.

15. Why does Mma Ramotswe like farms?
(a) They remind her of her father.
(b) They remind her of the true values of her people.
(c) They remind her of her husband.
(d) They remind her of her adulthood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What needs its brakes constantly checked at the orphan farm?

2. Who does Mma Ramotswe learn everyone dislikes?

3. What do you not do as the guest of a house?

4. Why are the orphans usually brought to the farm?

5. Who do we need according to the old Kgatla saying?

(see the answer keys)

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