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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter X, The Venloo Commando.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What consequence do the Xhosa people face after taking their actions in response to Nonqause's prophecy?
(a) They starve, and hundreds of them die.
(b) They contract yellow fever and many die.
(c) They are arrested by the English and imprisoned.
(d) They lose the battle with the Zulus and are annihilated.

2. What does the Old Seeker show Nxumalo and Chief Ngalo after he sees the "heavy earth"?
(a) A camel.
(b) Silk from China.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A golden amulet from Persia.

3. What is Cecil Rhodes' dream in Chapter Nine?
(a) To unite Africa under English rule.
(b) To defeat Dingane in battle.
(c) To find the biblical city of Ophir.
(d) To find a large diamond.

4. How do the Hottentots and Bushmen respond to the new law passed at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) They declare war on the English.
(b) They join the English military.
(c) They demand financial restitution for their years of slavery.
(d) They steal cattle and raid Dutch farms.

5. Who is sent to the south to see if the Dutch families there can be counted on to join the Dutch families in the north if fighting breaks out between the English and the Dutch?
(a) Paulus DeGroot.
(b) Jakob Van Doorn.
(c) Sybilla DeGroot.
(d) Maud Saltwood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Voortrekkers face the twelve thousand Zulus in battle at Blood River in 1838?

2. What has the king of Zimbabwe decreed that every man or woman passing the Field of Granite en route to Zimbabwe must take with them to the city?

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

4. What does Karel Van Doorn want Paul de Prè to return to France and secretly bring back to him?

5. Who does Lodevicus Van Doorn marry after his first wife is killed?

(see the answer key)

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