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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mark Anders meet when he goes to Chaka's gate?

2. Who comes and tells Mark Anders about this grand grandfather's murderer?

3. Whom does Dirk Courtney ask to play the role of a doctor?

4. Where does Storm go the next day after spending the afternoon with Mark Anders?

5. What is Pungushe by profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mark decide to do after he learns of his wife's death?

2. What is the conversation Mark and Pungushe have when Mark Anders returns to Chaka's Gate?

3. Why is the General angry when Mark gets money from Dirk?

4. What happens to Mark and Storm at the end of the book?

5. How do Mark and Pungushe lead Dirk and his company astray?

6. What does Mark tell Storm to do when she tells him about all that the difficulties she has faced so far in her life?

7. Why does Mark feel a sense of purpose?

8. How does the General get killed and by whom?

9. How does Marion get killed?

10. What can be said of the relationship between Mark and Marion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In your opinion, how does Wilbur Smith bring his characters to life?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast any three characters from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

How has the author shown the peaceful co-existence of the white man and the black man in the novel?

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