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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a Trekboer?
(a) A Dutch sailor.
(b) A Dutch bride.
(c) A member of the Trekboer family.
(d) A nomadic farmer or cattle herder.

2. Why does Naoka initially reject Gao as a prospective husband?
(a) He's too bashful.
(b) He hasn't yet killed an eland to prove his prowess at hunting.
(c) He's too old for her.
(d) Her sister is in love with him.

3. What does Karel Van Doorn want Paul de Prè to return to France and secretly bring back to him?
(a) A stolen ruby.
(b) Cuttings from five hundred French grape vines.
(c) Love letters from a French countess.
(d) A political document involving the French king.

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

5. At what age do the women in Gumsto's tribe marry?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty.

6. What tree do the burghers plant around the Dutch colony to protect their cattle and keep out the rest of Africa?
(a) An oak tree.
(b) An elm tree.
(c) A maple tree.
(d) A bitter almond tree.

7. What is the Old Seeker's spear made out of in Chapter Two?
(a) Steel.
(b) Graphite.
(c) Gold.
(d) Iron.

8. Who inadvertently starts a war with the Xhosa tribe in Chapter Five by moving to land he doesn't realize has been allotted to the Xhosa by the governor?
(a) Hilary Saltwood.
(b) Adriaan Van Doorn.
(c) Paulus DeGroot.
(d) Lodevicus Van Doorn.

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

10. Which Saltwood is elected to parliament in Chapter Six?
(a) Josiah.
(b) Nicholas.
(c) Peter.
(d) Richard.

11. At the beginning of Chapter One, what has caused the water of the lake to become brackish?
(a) An overgrowth of algae.
(b) A gold vein underneath the lake.
(c) A drought.
(d) Pollution by Dutch settlers.

12. Where does Captain Nicholas Saltwood build his English estate?
(a) On the river Avon.
(b) In the center of London.
(c) On the Thames river just outside London.
(d) In Staffordshire.

13. At the beginning of Chapter Seven, for what tribal problem does the diviner think Ndela is responsible?
(a) The scarcity of game for them to hunt.
(b) The flooding of their land.
(c) The drought over their land.
(d) The sickness of their cattle.

14. Which Van Doorn befriends the slave Dikkop in Chapter Five?
(a) Hendrik Van Doorn.
(b) Karel Van Doorn.
(c) Rebecca Van Doorn.
(d) Adriaan Van Doorn.

15. What Englishman documents Shaka's later years?
(a) James Lochwood.
(b) Captain Nicholas Saltwood.
(c) Bill Turner.
(d) Henry Francis Fynn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what do Kharu and the other women carry water when the tribe moves?

2. Who does Hilary Saltwood marry?

3. Why does Gumsto feel entitled to take the seventeen-year-old widow Naoka as his wife?

4. What is Paul de Prè skilled at growing?

5. What is the name of the Van Doorn estate in South Africa?

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