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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 her daughter bullies Petra.
(b) That Petra is a very intelligent girl.
(c) That Petra has black blood.
(d) That Petra bullies her daughter.

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

4. To where do the English send their prisoners in the Boer Wars?
(a) To concentration camps.
(b) To farms outside London.
(c) To prisons in Scotland.
(d) To prisons in France.

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) Sybilla DeGroot.
(b) Maud Saltwood.
(c) Jakob Van Doorn.
(d) Paulus DeGroot.

6. What is the name of Richard Saltwood's South African estate?
(a) Santa Rosa.
(b) Trianon.
(c) Brierly.
(d) De Kraal.

7. To what city do Johanna and Piet Krause convince Detleef to come at the beginning of Chapter Twelve?
(a) Kimberley.
(b) Johannesburg.
(c) Zimbabwe.
(d) Paris.

8. What is Pik Prinsloo's professon?
(a) He is a licensed diamond digger.
(b) He is a physician.
(c) He is an architect.
(d) He is a teacher.

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

10. Why are farmers living in squalor in the city when Detleef visits it in Chapter Twelve?
(a) The Zulus burned their crops.
(b) The English burned their crops.
(c) Their crops were destroyed by insects.
(d) Drought has forced them off their land.

11. Who declares war on October 10, 1899?
(a) The English.
(b) The Boers.
(c) The French.
(d) The Zulus.

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

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

14. Which of the following is not a consequence Petra and her family suffer due to Mrs. Van Valck's actions?
(a) They are labeled "colored".
(b) They are relocated to a black only neighborhood.
(c) They are jailed.
(d) They lose their jobs and are thrown out of their home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor does Queen Victoria bestow on Richard Saltwood for his many actions on England's behalf in Africa?

2. Who does Tjaart Van Doorn marry when his first wife, Jakoba, dies?

3. To what do the economic conditions in Johannesburg lead?

4. What interactions do the Voortrekkers have with the Zulu warrior Dingane?

5. When a new teacher opens a school in Venloo in Chapter Eleven, who is sent there to get a formal education in English?

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