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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 umbrella name for all of Ralph's companies?
(a) RABALLS.
(b) AFRABS.
(c) DIARALS.
(d) RHOLANDS.

2. What are amaholi?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Healers.

3. What is the name of Robyn's only son?
(a) James.
(b) Robert.
(c) Ryan.
(d) John.

4. As the novel begins, how many wagons does Ralph own?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 150.

5. As he's trying to get out of going down in the mine shaft, what does Jan Cheroot claim to be?
(a) A coward.
(b) Sick.
(c) Sacred.
(d) A thief.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ralph sells his company, who does he next visit in Kimberley?

2. What disease does Robyn study by giving it to herself?

3. As the story begins, how old is Ralph?

4. With what does Zouga hope to replace the trek oxen he lost to the virus?

5. When Mungo finally reaches the mission, where does he command all of the people to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jordan so uncomfortable when Ralph and Cecil begin to argue at the camp?

2. As the Matabele men prepare to carry out their killings, what is Tanase's primary job?

3. Before Ralph departs, why does he warn Frank Rhodes not to send any unnecessary telegrams?

4. What will the role of the mujiba be in the great storm?

5. Why does Robyn eventually publish "Trooper Hackett of Matabeleland" with her own money?

6. What does Ralph think to himself when Zouga's rifle shot does not find its target, but goes low and left?

7. When Tanase greets Bazo as he is returning to Gandang's kraal, she calls Bazo a name that makes Bazo uncomfortable. Why does the name make Bazo uncomfortable?

8. When Ralph returns to the mines and first sees Victoria, Harry confides to Ralph that Harry is amazed by Victoria. Why?

9. Why does Victoria have to be convinced of their new honeymoon destination?

10. When Ralph, Jan Cheroot, and Zouga are searching the land between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers, why is Ralph bored?

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