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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 whites have actively suppressed the education of blacks out of fear.
(c) Because whites destroyed blacks’ tribal life in the first place.
(d) Because of blacks’ inferior intelligence and inability to help themselves.

2. What do Ndotsheni’s children lack which is causing them to die in greater than average numbers?
(a) Vitamin C.
(b) Malaria medicine.
(c) Clean water.
(d) Milk.

3. Who does Absalom claim planned the time and place for the house break?
(a) Matthew Kumalo.
(b) Absalom himself.
(c) Richard Mpiring.
(d) Johannes Pafuri.

4. What was the name of the accomplice carrying this weapon?
(a) Johannes Pafuri.
(b) Matthew Kumalo.
(c) Richard Mpiring.
(d) Baby Mkize.

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

6. What had James Jarvis hoped would be his son’s career?
(a) He wanted Arthur to study in England to become a doctor.
(b) He wanted Arthur to become a prominent Judge.
(c) He wanted Arthur to become an engineer.
(d) He wanted Arthur to take over the family farm.

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

8. From which province do both Kumalo and Jarvis come?
(a) Natal.
(b) Gauteng.
(c) Transvaal.
(d) Cape.

9. Who has disappeared on the morning Kumalo is set to return to Ndotsheni?
(a) Absalom’s wife.
(b) Gertrude.
(c) Msimangu.
(d) Mrs. Lithebe.

10. What does Kumalo eventually find out happened to Sibeko’s daughter?
(a) She started making liquor and was jailed.
(b) She was killed by a cart in the street.
(c) She became a prostitute and disappeared.
(d) She committed suicide after her husband died in the mines.

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

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

13. How many bullets were in the revolver at the time Absalom shot Arthur?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

14. 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 makes them as culpable as Absalom in Arthur Jarvis’ murder and sentences them to death.
(c) The Judge finds them guilty of house breaking and sentences them to ten years prison.
(d) The Judge finds insufficient evidence to convict either of them and lets them go free.

15. What is the name of the town in which the Jarvises reside?
(a) Alexandra.
(b) Ixopo.
(c) Carisbrooke.
(d) Ndotsheni.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Msimangu give Kumalo during their final moments together?

2. How do the villagers react to the changes the agricultural demonstrator tries to implement?

3. What name does Absalom ask his father to name his child if it is boy?

4. What word for God does Kumalo use when praying?

5. What does James Jarvis express when Kumalo tells him Absalom’s execution date?

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