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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which tribal leader causes as much death, devastation, and forced migration as Shaka?
(a) Dingane.
(b) Mhlangana.
(c) Nxumalo.
(d) Mzilikazi.

2. When Nxumalo gains the king's attention, what new job is he given?
(a) Supervision of the gold mines.
(b) Physician.
(c) Dream interpreter.
(d) Head scribe.

3. At the beginning of Chapter Seven, what has Nxumalo been raised to believe about the chief of his tribe?
(a) That whatever the chief says is law.
(b) That the chief is omnipotent.
(c) That the chief is a god.
(d) That the chief is incompetent.

4. What does Mfecane mean?
(a) Death.
(b) The great warrior.
(c) The crushing.
(d) Blessings of the gods.

5. How does Paul de Prè gain control of the Van Doorn estate in South Africa?
(a) He wins it in a card game.
(b) He murders Marthinus Van Doorn.
(c) He marries the widowed Annatjie Van Doorn.
(d) He buys it when the Van Doorns go bankrupt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks Hilary Saltwood to serve as a character witness for him, and help him defend himself against the Black Circuit commision's charge of cruelty and murder?

2. Which Van Doorn befriends the slave Dikkop in Chapter Five?

3. How does Shaka become leader of the Zulus?

4. Who does Hilary Saltwood marry?

5. Why does Nxumalo decide not to return to his home village after seeing Zimbabwe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paul de Prè achieve his goal of acquiring the Van Doorn estate of Trianon, and why do his sons not inherit it after him?

2. How are Hilary and his wife, Emma, treated after their marriage, and is their treatment any different in England than it is in South Africa?

3. What messages do the English send the Voortrekkers in Chapter Seven?

4. How does Frank Saltwood's relationship with Cecil Rhodes get him into trouble with the Dutch?

5. What is Philip Saltwood hired to do and where does he eventually find what he is seeking?

6. Why is Prince Henry of Portugal determined to sail around the cape of Africa in 1453?

7. What is the Broederbond that Detleef Van Doorn is invited to join in Chapter Twelve?

8. In Chapter Ten, to what does Micah Nxumalo see the battle between the English and the Dutch as a forerunner?

9. Why is Detleef called a puritan, and what laws does he help enact?

10. Who is Pik Prinsloo, and what exciting find does he make in 1978?

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