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

2. Which character is MOST impressed by John Kumalo’s oratorical gifts?
(a) John Harrison, Sr.
(b) Stephen Kumalo.
(c) John Harrison, Jr.
(d) Msimangu.

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

4. What word best describes the relationship between James and Arthur Jarvis?
(a) Harmonious.
(b) Distant.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Antagonistic.

5. Which statement best describes Margaret Jarvis’ relationship with Arthur compared to James’?
(a) Margaret and James had the same exact relationship with Arthur.
(b) Margaret understood Arthur better than James did.
(c) Margaret took James’ side against Arthur when necessary.
(d) Margaret was more estranged from Arthur than James was.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement best describes John Harrison Sr. and Jr.’s relationship with blacks’ rights?

2. How many black miners die during their short-lived strike?

3. Who effectively saves Kumalo from being sent away by the Bishop?

4. What event occurs a few days before Absalom’s sentencing which foreshadows he is unlikely to get judicial leniency?

5. What word does Kumalo use to describe a quality about Arthur to James?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Compare and contrast James Jarvis and John Harrison, Sr.’s attitudes towards blacks before James starts reading Arthur’s papers.

3. What anxiety does Kumalo have over the death of Margaret Jarvis, and how does James Jarvis ease it?

4. What surprises James Jarvis most about people’s reaction to his son’s death?

5. Describe the villagers’ reaction to Kumalo’s return to Ndotsheni, from the time he gets off the train until he reaches the church.

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

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

8. Describe how Napoleon Letsitsi comes to be in Ndotsheni.

9. 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.

10. Briefly summarize Arthur Jarvis’s argument about the responsibility of whites to blacks in the papers James Jarvis reads.

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