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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a disease prevalent in the English concentration camps?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Measles.
(d) Dysentery.

2. To where do the English send their prisoners in the Boer Wars?
(a) To prisons in Scotland.
(b) To concentration camps.
(c) To farms outside London.
(d) To prisons in France.

3. When Chief Ngalo asks his son Nxumalo to bring the "heavy earth" to show the Old Seeker, what does Nxumalo bring?
(a) A pot of soil.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A chunk of gold.
(d) Three iron ingots from Phalaborwa.

4. What does the king of Zimbabwe put Nxumalo in charge of moving?
(a) The royal palace.
(b) The city of Zimbabwe.
(c) The diamond mine.
(d) The gold mine.

5. Who does Tjaart Van Doorn marry when his first wife, Jakoba, dies?
(a) Aletta.
(b) Laura.
(c) Anna.
(d) Henrietta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the Voortrekkers as a general when they battle with the Zulus at Blood River in 1838?

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

3. In what do Kharu and the other women carry water when the tribe moves?

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

5. What Englishman documents Shaka's later years?

(see the answer key)

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