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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI, Education of a Puritan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country does Detleef Van Door tour as an athlete, representing his country on the Springbok team?
(a) Australia.
(b) China.
(c) America.
(d) New Zealand.

2. What Englishman documents Shaka's later years?
(a) Henry Francis Fynn.
(b) Captain Nicholas Saltwood.
(c) James Lochwood.
(d) Bill Turner.

3. At the beginning of Chapter Seven, what has Nxumalo been raised to believe about the chief of his tribe?
(a) That the chief is omnipotent.
(b) That the chief is incompetent.
(c) That the chief is a god.
(d) That whatever the chief says is law.

4. When the English teacher is replaced, in what language does the new teacher educate the children?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Portuguese.
(d) Afrikaans.

5. What outcast from the Langeni does Nxumalo meet once he leaves his own tribe?
(a) Mqalane.
(b) Nandi.
(c) Shaka.
(d) Mpepha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Van Doorn estate in South Africa?

2. Who says that in order to beat the English, the Dutch must first be educated the way they are to have the tools with which to overcome them?

3. What does General JBM Hertzog's speech in Chapter Eleven involve?

4. Who does Johanna Van Doorn marry?

5. What does Karel Van Doorn want Paul de Prè to return to France and secretly bring back to him?

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