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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the boy chasing the girl that hides in the shadows of the trees in Chapter 2?
2. Who is known as the Lion of the North?
3. Who does Pieter's gift bring together?
4. What sound terrifies Pieter while he is kneeling at the tree?
5. According to Jakob in Chapter 15, who thinks the phalarope is a bird of the coast?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Pieter cancel his visit with Kappie after seeing Anna home, and where does he go instead?
2. When Pieter finds Sophie in the pantry alone during the birthday party, what happens?
3. What rugby news does the young dominee telephone Pieter about?
4. Why does Pieter feel unclean after returning home to Nella from taking Stephanie the money for a lawyer?
5. Why does Pieter get so upset about Nella's response to his letter?
6. In Chapter 4, what details from the story most likely support the narrator's claim that the lieutenant had different thoughts in his mind about things than others like him did?
7. Why does Frans go to see Sophie at the captain's house?
8. After being with Stephanie a second time, the lieutenant is even more upset with himself. How does he respond to being asked to be a diaken?
9. In Chapter 12, after evening church services Pieter tried to convey his need to his wife for more of her love and attention to keep him from temptation. What happens?
10. What happened with small pox in Venterspan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the dichotomy of Pieter's personality symbolize the dichotomy of the country? Support responses with a focus on character interactions and behaviors from the story. For example, Nella is so calm and pleasant on the outside, and yet so judgmental, critical and racist on the inside.
Essay Topic 2
Pieter's mother is woven throughout this story as someone who loves all, unconditionally. How does this character compare with the God portrayed in their religion and how they react to who He is in their lives and who she is to her family and the community?
Essay Topic 3
Nella has a definitive opinion about black and white relationships as indicated in the beginning of the story. Describe this opinion. How does her perspective change by the time we get to the end of the story involving her husband, Pieter? Support all responses with story details.
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