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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 does Nxumalo tell the Old Seeker his people traded for the "heavy earth"?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Cloth they wove.
(d) Antelope hides.

2. How does Naoka's first husband die?
(a) Gumsto murders him.
(b) He dies of a fever.
(c) He drowns.
(d) A rhinoceros kills him.

3. For what purpose are the small San people enslaved and used by the people of Zimbabwe?
(a) To work the gold mines.
(b) To perform domestic tasks like cooking.
(c) To build the city's temples.
(d) To work in the barley fields.

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

5. 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) Three iron ingots from Phalaborwa.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A chunk of gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does the Old Seeker tell Nxumalo he must do upon reaching Zimbabwe?

2. What does the king of Zimbabwe put Nxumalo in charge of moving?

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

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

5. How old is Gumsto when he first appears in the novel?

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