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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. What is the precious thing Link finds in his pocket while trapped in the car?
(a) A plastic bag.
(b) A cell phone.
(c) A Tootsie Roll.
(d) A pair of scissors.

2. What does Danilo flaunt in front of Link's face when he confronts him in the car?
(a) Potato chips.
(b) A phone.
(c) Keys.
(d) Water.

3. How does Evan Pentelow say Link sounds when he talks after his ordeal in the car?
(a) A howling dog.
(b) A crow with laryngitis.
(c) A homesick bull.
(d) An opera singer.

4. How many lions inhabit Kruger Park?
(a) Ten.
(b) Ten thousand.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Twelve hundred.

5. Who does Link feel sorry for in light of Danilo's guilt?
(a) Clifford Wenkins.
(b) Nerissa.
(c) Sally van Huren.
(d) Greville Arknold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Link sees the gallon of water in the radiator of the car he is trapped in as being a _____.

2. What does Link want of Conrad's to trap Danilo?

3. Where is Danilo staying South Africa?

4. What causes Link's primary discomfort in the car in Kruger park?

5. What is the place called where the miners take the reef from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Link think about hunger as he sits in the car starving to death?

2. What is the difference, according to Pieter Losenwoldt, between the way gold is extracted in South Africa and how it is extracted in California and Alaska.

3. What does Haagner say to warn the group about lions?

4. Why can't Link escape from the handcuffs?

5. As Danilo is calculating how much the gold mine makes for the van Huren's, what does Quentin van Huren remind him about?

6. How does Link's fear manifest when he is hit over the head in the gold mine?

7. What does Conrad reveal about Evan Pentelow's involvement in finding Link?

8. What are Evan Pentelow's beliefs concerning the value of gold?

9. Where do Conrad and Evan Pentelow take Link after his ordeal in the car and why?

10. What does Link say to Roderick Hodge about his brush with death in the gold mine and how does he respond?

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