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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. What kind of shelters do Gumsto's clan members make for their dwellings?
(a) One-room brick abodes.
(b) Mud and straw huts.
(c) Grass thrown across a framework of interlocked saplings.
(d) Tents made of animal hides.

2. What does the Black Circuit commission investigate?
(a) The treatment of women.
(b) Charges of financial misconduct.
(c) Misconduct of African slaves.
(d) Charges of cruelty toward and murder of native Africans.

3. Why does Paul de Prè relocate his family to Amsterdam?
(a) To start a business.
(b) To escape imprisonment for a crime he's committed.
(c) To escape the religious persecution of the Catholic Church.
(d) To marry a Dutch widow.

4. What is Gao more skilled at than he is at hunting?
(a) Painting.
(b) Farming.
(c) Weaving cloth.
(d) Catching fish.

5. What nationality is the man who establishes the fort at Malacca in 1511?
(a) French.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Trekboer?

2. At the beginning of Chapter Seven, what has Nxumalo been raised to believe about the chief of his tribe?

3. Which of the following does not describe Seena Van Valck?

4. What is the name of the Van Doorn estate in South Africa?

5. What does Gumsto suggest to help ensure the success of the San tribe's hunt when they are starving, in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the San tribe must move, and why Kharu thinks the time is not yet right to move?

2. Explain the trade established between the city of Zimbabwe and the Arabians.

3. 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?

4. Why does Detlev Van Doorn change his name?

5. What roles do women have in the San tribe?

6. How do Frank and Maud Saltwood assist Dutch prisoners in Chapter Ten?

7. What is Willem Van Doorn's relationship with Ateh the slave girl?

8. What is Mzilikazi's relationship with Shaka?

9. Who are the Venloo Commandos, and how do they fare in their skirmishes with the English?

10. What is the significance of Zimbabwe's origins to Cecil Rhodes' arguments for English rule of South Africa?

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