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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Zimbabwe.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what is Gumsto a master?
(a) Tracking antelope and other game.
(b) Painting on cave walls and rocks.
(c) Using a spear.
(d) Using a bow and arrows.

3. What is the Old Seeker's spear made out of in Chapter Two?
(a) Iron.
(b) Steel.
(c) Gold.
(d) Graphite.

4. Why does Nxumalo decide not to return to his home village after seeing Zimbabwe?
(a) He can make more money in Zimbabwe.
(b) The journey back home would be too perilous.
(c) Zimbabwe is more exciting than his village.
(d) He has fallen in love with a woman from Zimbabwe.

5. What is Kharu's role in the tribe?
(a) She makes the poison for the arrows.
(b) She is the tribe's goat herder.
(c) She is the tribal healer.
(d) She's the tribal shaman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Old Seeker show Nxumalo and Chief Ngalo after he sees the "heavy earth"?

2. What does Nxumalo tell the Old Seeker his people traded for the "heavy earth"?

3. To what religion does Prince Henry of Portugal wish to convert Africa?

4. For what purpose are the small San people enslaved and used by the people of Zimbabwe?

5. At what age do the men in Gumsto's tribe marry?

(see the answer key)

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