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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Gumsto when he first appears in the novel?
(a) Forty-three.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

2. Why do Seena Van Doorn and her daughter-in-law come into conflict?
(a) Rebecca is very religious and considers Seena a blasphemer.
(b) Rebecca is lazy.
(c) Rebecca is arrogant.
(d) Rebecca is a hypochondriac and always feigning illness.

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

4. Who establishes a fort at Malacca in 1511?
(a) Afonso de Albuquerque.
(b) Christopher Columbus.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Vasco da Gama.

5. From what disease does Paul de Prè die?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Smallpox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kharu's role in the tribe?

2. What does Rebecca's father do for a living in Chaper Five?

3. What does Karel Van Doorn want to do with the secret purchase Paul de Prè brings back from France?

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

5. Who inherits the Van Doorn's South African estate after Paul de Prè's death?

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