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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XI, Education of a Puritan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nxumalo leave his tribe, the Sixolobo?
(a) He has been disgraced in battle and his pride is wounded.
(b) He has been rejected by a woman and has a broken heart.
(c) He wants to see the great city of Zimbabwe.
(d) He fears he will be executed like his father.

2. What work does Paul de Prè's wife do for his Amsterdam employers?
(a) She is their seamstress.
(b) She is their cook.
(c) She is their housekeeper.
(d) She is their governess.

3. What is Willem Van Doorn's dying wish?
(a) That his wife remarry.
(b) That he be buried in Holland.
(c) That his grandchildren never go to war with the Hottentots.
(d) That his children prosper.

4. Why does Piet Krause take the school children and their families to Waterval-Boven?
(a) To see a trainload of Chinese workers being repatriated.
(b) To visit the museum there.
(c) To see the waterfall near the town.
(d) For a picnic.

5. Why does Paul de Prè relocate his family to Amsterdam?
(a) To escape the religious persecution of the Catholic Church.
(b) To marry a Dutch widow.
(c) To start a business.
(d) To escape imprisonment for a crime he's committed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karel Van Doorn want to do with the secret purchase Paul de Prè brings back from France?

2. How does Paul de Prè gain control of the Van Doorn estate in South Africa?

3. At the beginning of Chapter Seven, what has Nxumalo been raised to believe about the chief of his tribe?

4. Who takes every opportunity to remind the Dutch survivors of the war about the mistreatment of the English?

5. What does Nxumalo's father Ndela do to arouse the suspicion of the tribe's diviner?

(see the answer key)

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