View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Prince Henry of Portugal want his ships to sail around Africa's cape?
(a) To beat the French to China.
(b) To chart new territory.
(c) To reach the riches of the orient.
(d) To attack the Zulus.

2. What is a Trekboer?
(a) A member of the Trekboer family.
(b) A Dutch sailor.
(c) A Dutch bride.
(d) A nomadic farmer or cattle herder.

3. What is Kharu's role in the tribe?
(a) She is the tribal healer.
(b) She is the tribe's goat herder.
(c) She makes the poison for the arrows.
(d) She's the tribal shaman.

4. In what do Kharu and the other women carry water when the tribe moves?
(a) Gourds.
(b) Ostrich eggs.
(c) Clay bowls and pitchers.
(d) Rhinoceros horns.

5. How do Hilary and his wife die?
(a) They are murdered.
(b) They die of cholera.
(c) They burn in a fire.
(d) They drown in a shipwreck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the king of Zimbabwe decreed that every man or woman passing the Field of Granite en route to Zimbabwe must take with them to the city?

2. What is the name of Captain Nicholas Saltwood's ship in Chapter Three?

3. What happens when Mzilikazi stands up to Shaka?

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

5. Whose teachings do French Huguenots follow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Dutch respond when Chinese workers are recruited to work the mines?

2. Given that Prince Henry of Portugal thinks Africa should be considered uncivilized until Christianity is taught to the natives, what is ironic about the way the Portuguese under Vasco da Gama behave in Sofala when they arrive there in 1498?

3. How does Andries Pretorius help the Trekboers get revenge on the Zulu warrior Dingane?

4. How does Paulus De Groot influence Detlev Van Doorn's education?

5. Explain how the village of Caix in France in 1560 comes under the influence of Calvinism and how the Catholic Church responds to the villagers who come under its influence, i.e. the Huguenots.

6. Why does Karel Van Doorn want Paul de Prè to go back to France after de Prè has escaped and sought refuge from French religious persecution in Amsterdam?

7. How does the white race respond to apartheid in South Africa under Detleef Van Doorn's new laws?

8. What ability is valued by the San in their men, and what ability does Gao have instead?

9. Explain how Tjaart Van Doorn goes from having everything at the beginning of Chapter Eight to losing everything.

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 995 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample