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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One - 1895: Pages 196 - 229.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many blades does Bazo promise the Matabele warriors that they will have by the time the great storm begins?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 3,000.

2. When Ralph tells Harry to take the women to Bulawayo alone, where does Ralph head to?
(a) Khami.
(b) Kimberley.
(c) Harkness.
(d) Cape Town.

3. How much time has passed between when Zouga arrives in the land between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers at the beginning of the novel and when he had last been in this same area?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) Forty years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Ten years.

4. As Mungo heads back to the mission to warn the others of the ominous sky, what becomes suddenly oppressive?
(a) The stillness.
(b) The heat.
(c) The sun.
(d) The noise.

5. What is the name of the plague that strikes the with a vengeance and kills oxen and cattle?
(a) Renderlis.
(b) Randipent.
(c) Ruminants.
(d) Rindepest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than Bazo's son is Ralph's son?

2. How long does it take Ralph and Harry to peg their new claims in Wankie's country?

3. What does Ralph give Jonathon for his birthday?

4. Before converting to Christianity, what name was Ruth known by?

5. When Mungo St. John breaks into Juba's tent in the middle of the night, what does Juba call Mungo?

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