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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, The Huguenots.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of shelters do Gumsto's clan members make for their dwellings?
(a) One-room brick abodes.
(b) Mud and straw huts.
(c) Grass thrown across a framework of interlocked saplings.
(d) Tents made of animal hides.

2. Why does Gumsto feel entitled to take the seventeen-year-old widow Naoka as his wife?
(a) He's the richest man in the clan.
(b) Naoka's father promises her to him to repay a debt.
(c) He's the handsomest man in the clan.
(d) He's the leader of the clan.

3. To what prosperous trade center does Malacca open access?
(a) China.
(b) Spain.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) The Spice Islands.

4. How many members are in Gumsto's clan?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) One hundred.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Twenty-five.

5. With whom does Willem Van Doorn fall in love and father two children?
(a) A slave girl named Ateh.
(b) An English woman named Julia.
(c) A French woman named Danielle.
(d) A Dutch woman named Hanneke.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter One, what has caused the water of the lake to become brackish?

2. How many rhinoceros horns does the Old Seeker tell chief Ngalo he needs?

3. What does Gumsto suggest to help ensure the success of the San tribe's hunt when they are starving, in Chapter One?

4. What is Willem Van Doorn's dying wish?

5. How does Naoka's first husband die?

(see the answer key)

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