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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Juba and Bazo talk about killing the white men, who does Bazo say that he would spare if he could spare one?
(a) Henshaw.
(b) One-Bright-Eye.
(c) Nomusa.
(d) Bakela.

2. What are amaholi?
(a) Elephants.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Healers.

3. What is the name of the estate where Zouga lives?
(a) Kimberley Club.
(b) Khami Mission.
(c) King's Lynn.
(d) Queen's Lynn.

4. As he's trying to get out of going down in the mine shaft, what does Jan Cheroot claim to be?
(a) Sacred.
(b) Sick.
(c) A thief.
(d) A coward.

5. As Mungo heads back to the mission to warn the others of the ominous sky, what becomes suddenly oppressive?
(a) The stillness.
(b) The heat.
(c) The sun.
(d) The noise.

6. What animal comes to represent the beautiful and wild land between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers for Ralph Ballantyne?
(a) Giraffe.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Antelope.
(d) Buffalo.

7. As the story opens, how many days have the men marched east from the ruins?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Six days.
(c) Eight days.
(d) Nine days.

8. When Robyn tells Mungo to leave the mission, Mungo sees the sky turning an unusual color in the distance. What is Mungo seeing?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Fires.
(d) Bees.

9. When Ralph tells Harry to take the women to Bulawayo alone, where does Ralph head to?
(a) Cape Town.
(b) Khami.
(c) Harkness.
(d) Kimberley.

10. To whom does Ralph sell his company?
(a) Roelof Zeederberg.
(b) Aaron Fagan.
(c) Leander Jameson.
(d) Cecil Rhodes.

11. Who is Mzilikazi?
(a) Zouga's grandfather.
(b) Jan's grandfather.
(c) Gandang's grandfather.
(d) Bazo's grandfather.

12. What is the umbrella name for all of Ralph's companies?
(a) RHOLANDS.
(b) DIARALS.
(c) RABALLS.
(d) AFRABS.

13. How much time has passed between when Zouga arrives in the land between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers at the beginning of the novel and when he had last been in this same area?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Twenty years.

14. As Juba and Bazo talk about killing the white men, who does Bazo say that he will kill himself?
(a) Bakela.
(b) Nomusa.
(c) Henshaw.
(d) One-Bright-Eye.

15. How many blades does Bazo promise the Matabele warriors that they will have by the time the great storm begins?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Juba travels from Robyn's back to her husband's kraal, how many attendants accompany her?

2. When Juba comes to see Bazo, who is Juba upset with that Bazo insists must be killed?

3. How long does it take Ralph and Harry to peg their new claims in Wankie's country?

4. How long do the indunas wait in the village before the Umlimo comes down from the cavern?

5. At Khami Mission, who tells the girls that hundreds of soldiers are riding past the church?

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