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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the villagers react to the changes the agricultural demonstrator tries to implement?
(a) They are wary of change but slowly adopt the demonstrator’s suggestions.
(b) They are too lazy to make the changes.
(c) They enthusiastically embrace them in hopes things will get better in the valley.
(d) They question them curiously, trying to understand the science behind them.

2. What tribe does Kumalo belong to?
(a) Xhosa.
(b) Bantu.
(c) Sotho.
(d) Zulu.

3. What does the author indicate is the primary emotion that motivates how whites interact with blacks?
(a) Pity.
(b) Fear.
(c) resentment.
(d) Compassion.

4. What inexplicable activity does the character who unexpectedly appears in Ndotsheni with the village chief and magistrate participate in?
(a) They mark the ground with sticks and flags.
(b) They dig up and remove buckets of dirt.
(c) They pull up crops.
(d) They cut down trees.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways the agricultural demonstrator intends to improve the farming in Ndotsheni?
(a) He wants farmers to plant the land communally rather than individually.
(b) He wants to plant more trees.
(c) He wants to implement new patterns of plowing.
(d) He wants the village to invest in more cattle to fertilize the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which adjectives does Mrs. Lithebe use to describe the people she thinks Gertrude should not spend time with?

2. What final feeling does the novel have about the future of Africa?

3. Msimangu ministers to a community of people who suffer from which of the following?

4. What is the phrase used to describe why the lawyer takes the case without payment?

5. Which woman has a reputation for being involved in illegal activity?

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