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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. What does Karel Van Doorn want Paul de Prè to return to France and secretly bring back to him?
(a) Cuttings from five hundred French grape vines.
(b) A stolen ruby.
(c) Love letters from a French countess.
(d) A political document involving the French king.

2. What does Karel Van Doorn want to do with the secret purchase Paul de Prè brings back from France?
(a) Use it as a dowry for his daughter.
(b) Sell it.
(c) Use it to blackmail an enemy.
(d) Grow grapes and make wine on his South African estate.

3. Who does Johanna Van Doorn marry?
(a) Adriaan DeGroot.
(b) Josef Steyn.
(c) Jonathan Amberson, the English teacher.
(d) Piet Krause, the Afrikaaner teacher.

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

5. What happens when Mzilikazi stands up to Shaka?
(a) His tribe is absorbed by Shaka's, but Mzilikazi escapes.
(b) He surrenders.
(c) He is wounded by Nxumalo's spear.
(d) Shaka shoots him with a bow and arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose teachings do French Huguenots follow?

2. Why does Paul de Prè relocate his family to Amsterdam?

3. When the English teacher is replaced, in what language does the new teacher educate the children?

4. Who inherits the Van Doorn's South African estate after Paul de Prè's death?

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

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