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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter do to the poisonous snake to make it angry enough to bite Tungata's face?
(a) He hits it.
(b) He starves it.
(c) He burns it with hot coals.
(d) He holds it by its tail.

2. What does Tungata do before taking some of the diamonds from Lobengula's tomb?
(a) He asks Lobengula's permission.
(b) He chooses only the perfect ones.
(c) He proposes to Sarah.
(d) He asks Craig's permission.

3. What does Peter try to use as a bargaining chip with Tungata?
(a) Tungata's son.
(b) Sarah.
(c) King's Lynn.
(d) Tungata's freedom.

4. After traveling through the desert and being near exhaustion, why do Craig and Sally-Anne abandon the rifle and ammunition they are carrying?
(a) They are tempted to kill themselves.
(b) It is too heavy.
(c) It is Captain Nbebi's rifle.
(d) They don't want to be caught with it.

5. What poisonous snake does Peter use to torture Tungata?
(a) A True Viper.
(b) A Tree Viper.
(c) A Giboon Adder.
(d) A Black Mamba.

6. What does Peter tell Bukharin he wants other than Zimbabwe?
(a) All of Botswana.
(b) All of Africa.
(c) All the land to the south of Zimbabwe.
(d) All countries touching the Zimbabwe border.

7. What stops the patrols' vehicle and renders it useless?
(a) A colony of kangeroo rats.
(b) Gunfire from Craig's vehicle.
(c) Two flat tires.
(d) An impassible pothole.

8. How does Colonel Nikolai Bukharin intend to find Peter guilty?
(a) By arresting him.
(b) By befriending him.
(c) By sending Botwana police after him.
(d) By torturing him.

9. While in the tomb, why does Tungata change his name back to his given name of Samson?
(a) Because Sarah asks him to.
(b) To confuse Peter once they escape.
(c) To honor Vusamanzi.
(d) To claim his tribal heritage.

10. After Peter is led to the cavern, what does he do to the woman who led him there?
(a) He shoots her.
(b) He breaks her neck.
(c) He pays her.
(d) He thanks her.

11. Why does one of Vusamanzi's wives lead Peter to the caverns?
(a) Peter is her secret lovers.
(b) Peter threatens to kill her.
(c) Peter threatens to burn her baby alive.
(d) Peter kills all of the other wives.

12. Once they find a way out of Lobengula's tomb, what do Craig and Tungata do?
(a) Shoot all of Peter's soldiers.
(b) Overtake Peter's headquarters.
(c) Say a prayer of thanks to Lobengula.
(d) Look for Comrade Lookout.

13. How do Craig, Sally-Anne, Tungata and Sarah escape the caverns?
(a) They hid in crevasses inside the cavern and are not found.
(b) They take the back way out of the cavern.
(c) They swim down to the opening of Lobengula's tomb.
(d) They kill Peter and all the soldiers.

14. Who navigates the road as Craig, Sally-Anne and Captain Nbebi flee Peter' soldiers?
(a) Sally-Anne.
(b) They use a map.
(c) Captain Nbebi.
(d) Craig.

15. Where are King Lobengula's remains and the diamonds hidden?
(a) On the property of King's Lynn.
(b) Underneath a great Marula tree near the Botswana border.
(c) Forty feet below the surface of a cave lake.
(d) Inside the highest hill in Zimbabwe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sally-Anne and Craig find out about Henry Pickering?

2. When Sally-Anne flies into Zimbabwe for the second time what does she return from with that is needed for the successful rescue of Tungata?

3. What does Tungata find when he reaches Lobengula's tomb where the diamonds are hidden?

4. Why isn't Craig successful in entering Lobengula's tomb?

5. What causes Craig's vehicle to lose precious time and the patrols to get closer as he, Sally-Anne and Captian Nbebi flee King's Lynn?

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