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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XIV, Diamonds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does General JBM Hertzog's speech in Chapter Eleven involve?
(a) Repatriating the Chinese.
(b) Education in Afrikaans.
(c) Going into battle again to defeat the English.
(d) South Africa as a self-governed land.

2. 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.

3. Why does Piet Krause take the school children and their families to Waterval-Boven?
(a) To see a trainload of Chinese workers being repatriated.
(b) To visit the museum there.
(c) To see the waterfall near the town.
(d) For a picnic.

4. What marks the territory of each individual family in Gumsto's clan?
(a) A cooking fire.
(b) A patch of burned grass.
(c) A stone wall.
(d) Sticks and a few piled rocks.

5. Why does the Dutch Reform Church not sanction the Voortrekkers?
(a) The Voortrekkers are violent.
(b) The Voortrekkers are French rather than Dutch.
(c) The Voortrekkers prefer Catholicism.
(d) They consider the Voortrekkers revolutionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a disease prevalent in the English concentration camps?

2. Who does Old Seeker want Nxumalo to marry?

3. How does Shaka become leader of the Zulus?

4. Who says that in order to beat the English, the Dutch must first be educated the way they are to have the tools with which to overcome them?

5. What nation establishes the East India Company or John Company in 1600?

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