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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose daughter collected shells from the coast while on vacation?
(a) Pieter's.
(b) Steyn's.
(c) Stephanie's.
(d) Abraham's.

2. Whose bird did Pieter tell to come now and sing?
(a) Jakob's.
(b) Kappie's.
(c) Japie's.
(d) Frans'.

3. Who worked with two servants to clean the filth from the small pox in Venterspan?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Martha.
(c) Pieter's mother.
(d) Nella.

4. According to Jakob, who told him he should not argue with such learned men as the Englishman that authored the bird book?
(a) Pieter.
(b) Sybrand.
(c) Frans.
(d) Kappie.

5. Who took leave in Natal?
(a) Jooste.
(b) Pieter.
(c) The captain.
(d) Steyn.

6. Who goes on leave and takes his mother to Cape Town?
(a) Steyn.
(b) Vorster.
(c) Pieter.
(d) Pieter's captain.

7. Who wished to have been made a woman?
(a) Moffie.
(b) Japie.
(c) Kappie.
(d) Pieter.

8. What book does Jakob cross out Pieter's name from while the captain watches?
(a) The bird book.
(b) The stamp collection book.
(c) The bible.
(d) The family book.

9. Who finds Pieter with a gun prepared to kill himself?
(a) Kappie.
(b) Jakob.
(c) Frans.
(d) The captain.

10. Who tells Jakob about Pieter's charges?
(a) The captain.
(b) Steyn.
(c) Sophie.
(d) The young dominee.

11. Who does Pieter have lunch with just before returning to work and seeing his captain with Jooste?
(a) Kappie.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Nella.
(d) Japie.

12. Who takes the secret book to Nella?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Frans.
(c) Pieter's mom.
(d) The captain.

13. According to the young dominee, besides Pieter, who may be invited to join a famous rugby team?
(a) Dick.
(b) Himself.
(c) Kappie.
(d) Vorster.

14. Whose daughter brought back a box of shells?
(a) Frans'.
(b) Steyn's.
(c) Pieter's.
(d) Stephanie's.

15. Who gives the young dominee back his ring?
(a) Nella.
(b) Martha.
(c) Anna.
(d) Sophie.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sophie, who could not tell a man so now the whole world knew?

2. Who sees the letter and the money Pieter leaves behind and runs to Slabbert's field to look for Pieter?

3. When Pieter's captain goes on leave, who will be left in charge?

4. Who does Jakob send to Nella after being told about Pieter's arrest and the charges?

5. Why did Stephanie lose her second job?

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