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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XII, Achievement of a Puritan.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Xhosa do in response to Nonqause's prophecy?
(a) They attack the Boers.
(b) They slaughter their cattle and burn their crops.
(c) They attack the Zulus.
(d) They move further south.

3. Which of the following is not a disease prevalent in the English concentration camps?
(a) Measles.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Diabetes.

4. With which side do many blacks fight during the Boer wars?
(a) The English.
(b) The Portuguese.
(c) The Dutch.
(d) The French.

5. Which of the following is not a law Detleef helps pass once he's in parliament?
(a) Laws removing voting rights from people of mixed race.
(b) Laws demanding military service for all men.
(c) Laws legalizing segregation of the races in South Africa.
(d) Laws against interracial marriages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes governor of Java in Chapter Three?

2. Who asks Hilary Saltwood to serve as a character witness for him, and help him defend himself against the Black Circuit commision's charge of cruelty and murder?

3. When he is a boy, why does Shaka think he will one day be the Zulu chief?

4. Which Van Doorn first becomes a Trekboer?

5. What does General JBM Hertzog's speech in Chapter Eleven involve?

(see the answer key)

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