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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following physical characteristics is not typical of the clan to which Gumsto belongs?
(a) Yellowish-brown in color.
(b) Thin.
(c) Extremely wrinkled from a young age.
(d) Over six feet tall in height.

3. In what do Kharu and the other women carry water when the tribe moves?
(a) Clay bowls and pitchers.
(b) Ostrich eggs.
(c) Gourds.
(d) Rhinoceros horns.

4. At what age do the women in Gumsto's tribe marry?
(a) Ten.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Seven.
(d) Twenty.

5. What marks the territory of each individual family in Gumsto's clan?
(a) A patch of burned grass.
(b) A cooking fire.
(c) A stone wall.
(d) Sticks and a few piled rocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Old Seeker's spear made out of in Chapter Two?

2. Why does Prince Henry of Portugal want to find the city of Ophir?

3. Why does Gumsto feel entitled to take the seventeen-year-old widow Naoka as his wife?

4. In Chapter Two, who promises to wait for Nxumalo to return from Zimbabwe and then marry him?

5. Who does Old Seeker want Nxumalo to marry?

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