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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe Tjaart Van Doorn's situation at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) His family is happy and thriving.
(b) His sheep and cattle are healthy.
(c) He is a widower.
(d) His neighbors like and respect him.

2. Why are the mine owners forcing white Afrikaners out of the mines in Chapter Twelve?
(a) To hire black miners at lower wages.
(b) They are hiring Chinese miners instead.
(c) They are mechanizing the mines and need less miners.
(d) The mines are going out of business.

3. With whom does Philip fall in love while in Africa?
(a) Sannie Van Doorn.
(b) Kathryn Troxel.
(c) Angelina Troxel.
(d) Carrie Nxumalo.

4. Who attacks the Voortrekker wagons and kills the Lukas De Groot camp?
(a) Nxumalo.
(b) The Bantus.
(c) The San people.
(d) Mziikazi and his Matabele warriors.

5. What causes the loss of horses and oxen at the end of Chapter Eight as the Voortrekkers journey to Zimbabwe?
(a) A flash flood in which the animals drown.
(b) A lion attack.
(c) A Zulu attack on the Voortrekker camp.
(d) The tsetse fly.

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

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

8. 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 the lake on the Van Doorn property.
(c) In a cave on the DeGroot property.
(d) In a cave on the Nxumalo property.

9. What country does Detleef Van Door tour as an athlete, representing his country on the Springbok team?
(a) China.
(b) Australia.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) America.

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

11. How old is Heather Botha in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty three.

12. In what stream does he search for diamonds in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Chesterfield Stream.
(b) Van Dotten Stream.
(c) Swartsroom Stream.
(d) Marksbury Stream.

13. Who becomes a "media darling" during the Boer War?
(a) Jakob Van Doorn.
(b) Sybilla DeGroot.
(c) Paulus DeGroot.
(d) Micah Nxumalo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the response of the Dutch families in the south to the inquiry about their willingness to unite with the Dutch families in the north against the English?

2. What is the name of Richard Saltwood's South African estate?

3. Who does Johanna Van Doorn marry?

4. How long do black miners have to work before they can apply to have their families join them?

5. Who declares war on October 10, 1899?

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