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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a reason the Bishop wants to send Kumalo away from Ndotsheni?
(a) The Bishop thinks Kumalo is not educated enough to handle the financial accounting of the changes coming to Ndotsheni.
(b) The Bishop thinks Kumalo has endured too much scandal to effectively lead his people.
(c) The Bishop thinks Kumalo is too old to organize the construction of a new church.
(d) The Bishop thinks Kumalo’s close presence must distress the grieving Jarvis family.

2. Who effectively saves Kumalo from being sent away by the Bishop?
(a) The tribal chief.
(b) Arthur Jarvis’ son.
(c) James Jarvis.
(d) His congregation.

3. How many children did Arthur Jarvis have?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. Which of the following worry that John Kumalo’s speech to black miners could lead to an uprising?
(a) None of these answers.
(b) James Jarvis.
(c) Msimangu.
(d) The police.

5. Before the murderer is caught, who is suspected of the crime of killing Arthur?
(a) A racist white who dislikes Arthur’s agitation for black rights.
(b) Someone who committed the murder in a random act of gang violence.
(c) Someone on the orders of Dubula and John Kumalo.
(d) Someone who was once an employee of Arthur’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does John Harrison, Sr. hope will happen when the murderer is caught?

2. What building does Jarvis’ wife want to finance for Ndotsheni?

3. What other action does Absalom claim he took after ridding himself of the weapon?

4. What does Absalom claim is the reason he did not simply turn himself in to the police?

5. As James reads Arthur’s papers, what claim does his son make that offends him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the metaphorical usage of the rainstorm that occurs in Book Three, Chapter 3.

2. Describe the reactions of Kumalo, Msimangu, James Jarvis, and the police to John Kumalo’s speech about black mining laborers need to demand more pay for their work.

3. Compare Arthur Jarvis’ son’s attitude toward Kumalo and by extension blacks, to the attitude of the generations above him.

4. Compare and contrast the significance of the new gold mines in Odendaalsrust for whites and blacks, as indicated in Book Two, Chapter Six.

5. Describe the final meeting between Stephen and John Kumalo.

6. How does the village chief’s interaction with the magistrate and James Jarvis support John Kumalo’s earlier statement about chiefs, “He is a trick, a trick to hold together something that the white man desires to hold together.”

7. Describe the build-up, events, and results of the black mining strike.

8. Summarize the main events of the meeting between James Jarvis and Kumalo at the house of Jarvis’ kinswoman Barbara Smith.

9. Describe Barbara Smith’s response to Kumalo’s question about her servant, and explain the significance of James’ translation of this answer to Kumalo.

10. Compare and contrast Absalom and his wife’s reactions to their wedding.

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