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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. What is the name of Captain Nicholas Saltwood's ship in Chapter Three?
(a) The Cornwall Lady.
(b) The Harvest.
(c) The Acorn.
(d) The Allegria.

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

3. At what age do the men in Gumsto's tribe marry?
(a) Nineteen or twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty-five.

4. What nation establishes the United East India Company or Jan Company?
(a) France.
(b) Holland.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

5. 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) Use it to blackmail an enemy.
(c) Grow grapes and make wine on his South African estate.
(d) Sell it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Van Doorn befriends the slave Dikkop in Chapter Five?

2. Who does Cecil Rhodes believe built the great city of Zimbabwe?

3. Why does the Dutch Reform Church not sanction the Voortrekkers?

4. At what is Gumsto a master?

5. How many Voortrekkers face the twelve thousand Zulus in battle at Blood River in 1838?

(see the answer key)

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