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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. When a new teacher opens a school in Venloo in Chapter Eleven, who is sent there to get a formal education in English?
(a) Maria Steyn.
(b) Detlev Van Doorn.
(c) Johanna Van Doorn.
(d) Adriaan DeGroot.

2. Who inherits the Van Doorn's South African estate after Paul de Prè's death?
(a) Paul's son Henri.
(b) Paul's son Louis.
(c) Hendrik Van Doorn.
(d) Sarel Van Doorn.

3. What is Paul de Prè skilled at growing?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Barley.
(d) Grapes.

4. What does Nxumalo's father Ndela do to arouse the suspicion of the tribe's diviner?
(a) He flirts with the diviner's daughter.
(b) He draws in the dirt with a sharply pointed stick.
(c) He whistles.
(d) He hums to himself.

5. What does General JBM Hertzog's speech in Chapter Eleven involve?
(a) Going into battle again to defeat the English.
(b) Repatriating the Chinese.
(c) Education in Afrikaans.
(d) South Africa as a self-governed land.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what disease does Paul de Prè die?

3. What outcast from the Langeni does Nxumalo meet once he leaves his own tribe?

4. Why does Nxumalo leave his tribe, the Sixolobo?

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

(see the answer key)

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