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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do James Jarvis and Kumalo wait out a rainstorm?
(a) In Kumalo’s church.
(b) In the village school.
(c) In the tribal chief’s office.
(d) In Jarvis’ car.

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

3. Which statement best describes John Harrison Sr. and Jr.’s relationship with blacks’ rights?
(a) John Jr. was against equality for blacks while John Sr. supported it.
(b) Both John Sr. and Jr. were supported of equality for blacks.
(c) Both John Sr. and Jr. were against equality for blacks.
(d) John Sr. was against equality for blacks while John Jr. supported it.

4. What is the Jarvis boy excited to practice with Kumalo?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Basic accounting.
(c) Zulu.
(d) Afrikaans.

5. Who does James Jarvis surprise with a large financial donation to further the cause of blacks?
(a) John Kumalo.
(b) Stephen Kumalo.
(c) John Harrison, Jr.
(d) Msimangu.

6. What did Absalom do with the revolver after the murder?
(a) He hid it at the home of a friend.
(b) He sold it.
(c) He threw it in a river.
(d) He buried it in a plantation.

7. Which character unexpectedly appears in Ndotsheni with the village chief and magistrate?
(a) John Kumalo.
(b) Father Vincent.
(c) The Judge.
(d) James Jarvis.

8. What is the agricultural demonstrator’s attitude toward white people?
(a) He sympathizes with the fear whites have built for themselves and hopes to work directly with them toward better racial understanding.
(b) He wishes they would give blacks their own nation and leave them alone.
(c) He is bitter that blacks must rely on whites for assistance when whites suppressed them in the first place.
(d) He is grateful for their assistance in lifting blacks up.

9. What vocation does Gertrude think she would like to try?
(a) She wants to be a nun.
(b) She wants to be a secretary.
(c) She wants to be a teacher.
(d) She wants to be a nurse.

10. What sentence does the Judge give to Absalom?
(a) Death by firing squad.
(b) Death by lethal injection.
(c) Death by electric chair.
(d) Death by hanging.

11. How many black miners die during their short-lived strike?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Twenty.

12. Which of the following is NOT a reason Arthur mentions in his paper that whites need to take responsibility for helping blacks?
(a) Because people who consider themselves Christians should not subjugate others in the name of God’s will.
(b) Because of blacks’ inferior intelligence and inability to help themselves.
(c) Because whites have actively suppressed the education of blacks out of fear.
(d) Because whites destroyed blacks’ tribal life in the first place.

13. What day is Absalom set to be executed?
(a) The first of the month.
(b) None of the above.
(c) The fifteenth of the month.
(d) The thirtieth of the month.

14. What American president did Arthur Jarvis greatly admire?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

15. How does the agricultural demonstrator think the farming improvements will affect the future of Ndotsheni?
(a) He thinks they will allow blacks to be self-sufficient and raised out of poverty.
(b) He has a scientist’s experimental attitude and wants to wait and see what happens.
(c) He thinks young people will continue to go to the city because there will still not be enough work or food in the village.
(d) He thinks they will lead to the rebuilding of tribal life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Jarvis farm?

2. What gesture of respect does Arthur Jarvis’ son show Kumalo because he does not know any better about his implied superiority?

3. What natural phenomenon is afflicting Umzimkulu valley when Kumalo returns home?

4. Which character is MOST impressed by John Kumalo’s oratorical gifts?

5. What is James Jarvis’ main concern before learning of his son’s death?

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