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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What option does Kumalo briefly consider upon returning home due to his shame regarding his family’s behavior?
(a) He considers resigning from the priesthood.
(b) None of the above.
(c) He considers asking the Bishop to replace him as the Ndotsheni priest.
(d) He considers leaving Ndotsheni forever.

2. What is the verdict for Absalom’s two accomplices?
(a) The Judge finds one guilty of assault and sends him to twenty years in prison while allowing the other to go free.
(b) The Judge finds insufficient evidence to convict either of them and lets them go free.
(c) The Judge makes them as culpable as Absalom in Arthur Jarvis’ murder and sentences them to death.
(d) The Judge finds them guilty of house breaking and sentences them to ten years prison.

3. How did the three accomplices disguise themselves during the housebreak?
(a) They tied handkerchiefs around their mouths.
(b) They wore sunglasses.
(c) They wore hats pulled low over their eyes.
(d) They pulled stockings over their faces.

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

5. How do the Jarvises travel to Johannesburg?
(a) By bus.
(b) By private car.
(c) By train.
(d) By plane.

6. What name does Absalom ask his father to name his child if it is boy?
(a) Paul.
(b) Peter.
(c) Arthur.
(d) Michael.

7. Which sacrament is performed immediately following the sentencing in the prison?
(a) Matrimony.
(b) Communion.
(c) Last Rites.
(d) Reconciliation.

8. What do the villagers do to memorialize this person?
(a) They make an elaborate funeral wreath.
(b) They gather together and sing a hymn.
(c) They each individual sign a condolences card.
(d) They prepare a traditional dish to give to the mourning.

9. Whose death devastates the villagers of Ndotsheni?
(a) The tribe’s chief.
(b) Kumalo’s wife.
(c) Jarvis’ wife.
(d) Gertrude.

10. Where does Kumalo put his energy immediately upon returning from Johannesburg?
(a) He talks to community leaders about how to rejuvenate the tribe’s agriculture.
(b) He isolates himself with his family to bond them into a unit.
(c) He throws himself into rebuilding his church.
(d) He starts a letter-writing campaign for Absalom to avoid the death penalty.

11. When does the Jarvis boy tell Kumalo he will be leaving for Johannesburg?
(a) When his grandmother’s illness ends.
(b) When the new year begins.
(c) When his grandfather returns from Pretoria.
(d) When his mother and grandfather find them a new house to live in.

12. Which of the following best describes James’ attitude towards blacks before reading Arthur’s papers?
(a) Respectful but indifferent.
(b) Actively progressive.
(c) Actively hateful.
(d) Disinterested and distasteful.

13. What word does Kumalo use to describe a quality about Arthur to James?
(a) A “shine.”
(b) A “brightness.”
(c) A “sunniness.”
(d) A “lightness.”

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

15. What was the name of the paper Arthur Jarvis was writing about justice for blacks?
(a) “The Truth About Native Crime.”
(b) “Don’t Blame the Natives.”
(c) “Equality and Justice for All.”
(d) “A Modern Emancipation Proclamation.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Absalom claim planned the time and place for the house break?

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

3. Which of the following worry that John Kumalo’s speech to black miners could lead to an uprising?

4. What ceremony does the Bishop come to Ndotsheni to celebrate?

5. How many children did Arthur Jarvis have?

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