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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Voortrekker mean?
(a) A hunter of lions.
(b) A member of the Voortrek family.
(c) A corn and potatoes farmer.
(d) Forward trekker.

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

3. When a new teacher opens a school in Venloo in Chapter Eleven, who is sent there to get a formal education in English?
(a) Maria Steyn.
(b) Adriaan DeGroot.
(c) Johanna Van Doorn.
(d) Detlev Van Doorn.

4. 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 see the waterfall near the town.
(c) To visit the museum there.
(d) For a picnic.

5. 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 lose the battle with the Zulus and are annihilated.
(c) They contract yellow fever and many die.
(d) They are arrested by the English and imprisoned.

6. Who do the authorities ask to testify against Daniel Nxumalo?
(a) Marius Van Doorn.
(b) Frikkie Troxel.
(c) Sannie Van Doorn.
(d) Philip Saltwood.

7. What inspires the English to pass the new law at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) Simon Keer's novel about Dutch slaveholders.
(b) A rash of cattle thefts.
(c) The murder of a slave by a Dutchman.
(d) A slave uprising.

8. 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.

9. Who encourages Detlev Van Doorn to change his name to Detleef in Chapter Eleven to better reflect his country?
(a) Maria Steyn, daughter of commando Christoffel Steyn.
(b) Piet Krause.
(c) Johanna Van Doorn.
(d) Paulus DeGroot.

10. When the principal of the high school takes Mrs. Van Valck to the classroom to observe her daughter and Petra in class, what does Mrs. Van Valck decide?
(a) That Petra has black blood.
(b) That Petra bullies her daughter.
(c) That her daughter bullies Petra.
(d) That Petra is a very intelligent girl.

11. Who is the leader of the Venloo Commandos?
(a) Christoffel Steyn.
(b) Jakob Van Doorn.
(c) Paulus DeGroot.
(d) Micah Nxumalo.

12. Who takes every opportunity to remind the Dutch survivors of the war about the mistreatment of the English?
(a) Micah Nxumalo.
(b) Christoffel Steyn.
(c) Jakob Van Doorn.
(d) Paulus DeGroot.

13. What sport do the Troxel brothers love?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Rugby.
(d) Basketball.

14. When the English teacher is replaced, in what language does the new teacher educate the children?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) Portuguese.
(d) Afrikaans.

15. Where does Philip find the diamond pipe for which he has been searching while in Africa?
(a) In a lake on Zulu tribal land.
(b) In a cave on the Nxumalo property.
(c) In the lake on the Van Doorn property.
(d) In a cave on the DeGroot property.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Moses Nxumalo stopped by the police?

2. Why does the Dutch Reform Church not sanction the Voortrekkers?

3. Who does Heather date?

4. Who invites Detleef to a secret meeting in Chapter Twelve?

5. Why does the woman Philip loves reject his marriage proposal?

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