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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, The Huguenots.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many rhinoceros horns does the Old Seeker tell chief Ngalo he needs?
(a) Twenty.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Ten.
(d) Sixteen.

5. What is Willem Van Doorn's dying wish?
(a) That his grandchildren never go to war with the Hottentots.
(b) That he be buried in Holland.
(c) That his children prosper.
(d) That his wife remarry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What nationality is the man who establishes the fort at Malacca in 1511?

5. What tree do the burghers plant around the Dutch colony to protect their cattle and keep out the rest of Africa?

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