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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
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. What is the size of Pik Prinsloo's big diamond find in the stream?
3. What country does Detleef Van Door tour as an athlete, representing his country on the Springbok team?
4. What is Pik Prinsloo's professon?
5. Where does Philip find the diamond pipe for which he has been searching while in Africa?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the trekboers, the voortrekkers and the boers in The Covenant. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
The Covenant contains numerous examples of interracial relationships in South Africa, both interracial friendships and interracial romances and marriages. Pick at least three interracial relationships from the novel and compare and contrast those relationships: Willem Van Doorn and Ateh/Deborah, Willem Van Doorn and Jack/Horda, Petronella Van Doorn and Bezel, Adriaan Van Doorn and Dikkop, Hilary Saltwood and Emma, Heather Botha and Craig Saltwood, and Philip Saltwood and Daniel Nxumalo. What do you think the author is saying about racial relationships, and about human relationships through his depiction of these characters and their friendships and romances? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Some marriages in The Covenant are arranged, some are marriages of convenience, and some are nontraditional interracial relationships. Discuss any three of the following relationships: Willem Van Doorn, Ateh/Deborah, and Katje; Hilary Saltwood, Vera, and Emma; Lodevicus Van Doorn, Rebecca, and Wilhelmina Heimstra; and Paul de Prè, Petronella Van Doorn, and Annatjie Van Doorn. How does the historical era of each union affect the relationship? What do you think the author is saying about the availability of single European women and life on the South African frontier through these marriages?
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