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

2. What consequence do the Xhosa people face after taking their actions in response to Nonqause's prophecy?
(a) They contract yellow fever and many die.
(b) They lose the battle with the Zulus and are annihilated.
(c) They starve, and hundreds of them die.
(d) They are arrested by the English and imprisoned.

3. What legal step does Mrs. Van Valck take concerning Petra?
(a) She files a lawsuit against Petra's teacher.
(b) She files charges to initiate an investigation of Petra's race.
(c) She files a lawsuit against the school.
(d) She asks for a sample of Petra's DNA.

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

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

6. 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 lion attack.
(d) A Zulu attack on the Voortrekker camp.

7. 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) Christoffel Steyn.
(b) Paulus DeGroot.
(c) Piet Krause.
(d) Micah Nxumalo.

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

9. What is Cecil Rhodes' dream in Chapter Nine?
(a) To find a large diamond.
(b) To find the biblical city of Ophir.
(c) To defeat Dingane in battle.
(d) To unite Africa under English rule.

10. What interactions do the Voortrekkers have with the Zulu warrior Dingane?
(a) Dingane promises them land rights, but plans to kill them.
(b) Dingane guides them through dangerous Bantu land.
(c) Dingane signs a peace treaty with them.
(d) Dingane agrees to herd cattle and sheep for them.

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

12. What mining company is interested in investigating the area in which Prinsloo finds his big diamond to see if it has potential for yielding more of the precious gems?
(a) South African Mining Company.
(b) Van Doorn Mining Company.
(c) Amalgamated Mining Company.
(d) Caria African Mining Company.

13. Which of the following does not describe the way the Broderbond works?
(a) They publicize their activities in newspapers.
(b) They infiltrate schools and railways.
(c) They infiltrate politics and business.
(d) They put themselves into decision making positions.

14. Who leads the Voortrekkers as a general when they battle with the Zulus at Blood River in 1838?
(a) Andries Pretorius.
(b) Mzilikazi.
(c) Tjaart Van Doorn.
(d) Lukas DeGroot.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what stream does he search for diamonds in Chapter Fourteen?

3. Who attacks the Voortrekker wagons and kills the Lukas De Groot camp?

4. When the Crimean War causes a reduction in enlistments in the British army, from where do the British recruit new soldiers?

5. What conditions does Micah Nxumalo show Detleef that the black miners are facing?

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