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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter X, The Venloo Commando.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nation establishes the East India Company or John Company in 1600?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

2. How old is Paulus DeGroot during the war with the English?
(a) He's in his forties.
(b) He's in his twenties.
(c) He's in his sixties.
(d) He's in his thirties.

3. What work does the Old Seeker tell Nxumalo he must do upon reaching Zimbabwe?
(a) Become a carpenter.
(b) Build the wall around the city.
(c) Become a scribe.
(d) Farm.

4. What interactions do the Voortrekkers have with the Zulu warrior Dingane?
(a) Dingane agrees to herd cattle and sheep for them.
(b) Dingane promises them land rights, but plans to kill them.
(c) Dingane guides them through dangerous Bantu land.
(d) Dingane signs a peace treaty with them.

5. What does the Black Circuit commission investigate?
(a) Charges of financial misconduct.
(b) Misconduct of African slaves.
(c) The treatment of women.
(d) Charges of cruelty toward and murder of native Africans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frank Saltwood's relationship to Richard Saltwood?

2. Which of Captain Saltwood's crew members does Willem Van Doorn befriend?

3. What does Nxumalo's father Ndela do to arouse the suspicion of the tribe's diviner?

4. Why does Gumsto feel entitled to take the seventeen-year-old widow Naoka as his wife?

5. When the Crimean War causes a reduction in enlistments in the British army, from where do the British recruit new soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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