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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Micah Nxumalo.
(b) Christoffel Steyn.
(c) Paulus DeGroot.
(d) Piet Krause.

2. How many Voortrekkers face the twelve thousand Zulus in battle at Blood River in 1838?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Four hundred and sixty.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Twenty thousand.

3. 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 are arrested by the English and imprisoned.
(d) They contract yellow fever and many die.

4. Who does Johanna Van Doorn marry?
(a) Jonathan Amberson, the English teacher.
(b) Josef Steyn.
(c) Piet Krause, the Afrikaaner teacher.
(d) Adriaan DeGroot.

5. What happens to residents of Sophiatown in 1955?
(a) They are evicted due to their race.
(b) A tsunami devastates their town.
(c) The mine in their town closes, putting them out of work.
(d) They are given a parade.

6. Which of the following is not a condition in the English concentration camps?
(a) Too little food.
(b) Poor hygiene facilities.
(c) No women and children are present.
(d) No medicine.

7. At the beginning of Chapter Ten, who thinks a confrontation between the Dutch and the English is inevitable?
(a) Dingane.
(b) Richard Saltwood.
(c) Paulus DeGroot.
(d) Tjaart Van Doorn.

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

9. 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) The tsetse fly.
(c) A Zulu attack on the Voortrekker camp.
(d) A lion attack.

10. Who does Tjaart Van Doorn marry when his first wife, Jakoba, dies?
(a) Anna.
(b) Henrietta.
(c) Laura.
(d) Aletta.

11. How old is Paulus DeGroot during the war with the English?
(a) He's in his forties.
(b) He's in his thirties.
(c) He's in his sixties.
(d) He's in his twenties.

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

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

14. How does Richard Saltwood earn the name Cupid in Chapter Nine?
(a) He brings a minister to town to perform marriages.
(b) He helps unmarried Englishmen find wives in Africa.
(c) He helps the German recruits take wives with them to Africa.
(d) He arranges marriages for his Boer neighbors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discovered about Petra's father as a result of Mrs. Van Valck's actions?

2. What does General JBM Hertzog's speech in Chapter Eleven involve?

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

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

5. What law does Heather Botha break?

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