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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. Why does Pieter kneel at the blue-gum tree?
(a) To help someone up.
(b) To pray.
(c) To hide.
(d) He dropped something.

2. In Chapter 23, Pieter starts thinking that if he does not get a miracle he will do what?
(a) Leave town.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Tell his wife.
(d) Tell his captain.

3. Who does Pieter cancel visiting with after having drinks at the hotel?
(a) Moffie.
(b) Jakob.
(c) Kappie.
(d) Japie.

4. What does Pieter get from the study that they kept for visitors?
(a) A shot glass.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A lighter.
(d) An ashtray.

5. Who does Pieter guess is the new social welfare officer?
(a) Japie.
(b) Kappie.
(c) Dick.
(d) Jakob.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob suggest that he and Pieter search for on a trip to the family farm?

2. After dinner and a smoke, who does Pieter wait for in the dark in Chapter 19?

3. Who is president of the welfare committee?

4. Pieter vowed to give his life to God if there was no _____ in the dark.

5. What time is dinner served at cousin Anna's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Kappie, why does Pieter's neighbor, old Herman, spit and turn from him when he sees Pieter?

2. The narrator describes the lieutenant as "two men," in Chapter 1. How does the narrator justify such a description?

3. Why does Pieter ask Johannes about Esther?

4. Why does Pieter feel unclean after returning home to Nella from taking Stephanie the money for a lawyer?

5. What happens with Stephanie during her first trial?

6. Who went on the van Vlaanderen family picnic and who went bird watching during this picnic?

7. Who is Abraham Kaplan?

8. When Pieter went to see the old woman, Esther, after Stephanie's prison time ended, what happened?

9. Why does Pieter refuse dinner at his father's the first night after he has been with Stephanie?

10. What rugby news does the young dominee telephone Pieter about?

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