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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what do the economic conditions in Johannesburg lead?
(a) A move of miners to Zimbabwe.
(b) A closing of the mines.
(c) A move of miners to New Zealand.
(d) A violent strike in which hundreds die.

2. Why does Detleef refuse to accept the blue ribbon for his prize bull?
(a) He doesn't think his bull deserves to win.
(b) He is modest and shuns publicity.
(c) The king will present the ribbon, and he opposes the king.
(d) He's angry his sheep didn't win blue ribbons also.

3. What is discovered about Petra's father as a result of Mrs. Van Valck's actions?
(a) He has two black ancestors.
(b) He is an expert mathematician.
(c) He is an escaped felon.
(d) He is an embezzler.

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

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

6. 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) Repatriating the Chinese.
(d) South Africa as a self-governed land.

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

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

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

10. Who does Cecil Rhodes believe built the great city of Zimbabwe?
(a) The ancient Atlanteans.
(b) The ancient Greeks.
(c) The ancient Phoenicians.
(d) Native Africans.

11. 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.

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

13. Why does Mrs. Van Valck become jealous of Petra in Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Petra's family is wealthier than the Val Valck family.
(b) Petra is a cheerleader and Mrs. Van Valck's daughter isn't.
(c) Petra outperforms Mrs. Van Valck's daughter Minna in math.
(d) Petra is better at soccer than Mrs. Van Valck's daughter.

14. From what country does Philip Saltwood come at the mining company's request to investigate Pik Prinsloo's find?
(a) Australia.
(b) America.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) England.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who declares war on October 10, 1899?

2. What is Frank Saltwood's relationship to Richard Saltwood?

3. What sport does Detleef Van Doorn play?

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

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

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