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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompts Garrick to use his new leg?
(a) The desire to increase his level of freedom and return to school.
(b) Sean's ability to boost his brother's confidence.
(c) Each of these factors.
(d) Sean's help and caring as Garrick learns to use the leg.

2. While celebrating, what do Sean and Duff find out from Candy?
(a) She's heard they are abusing workers.
(b) She wants her stakes back.
(c) Claim jumpers are coming.
(d) She's heard they stole the stamp press.

3. What ideas does Sean have to save and make money?
(a) Buy as much land as possible for grazing.
(b) Sell most of the cattle before the war, and buy them back for half the price after.
(c) All options.
(d) Lease as much land as possible for grazing.

4. What rank does Waite Courtney hold in the regiment?
(a) General.
(b) Private.
(c) Captain.
(d) Colonel.

5. What causes the boys to get kicked out of school?
(a) Mr. Clark hits Garrick, sending Sean into a rage.
(b) Sean's noises and imitations.
(c) Sean's endless torment of his classmates.
(d) An outburst from Garrick after someone makes fun of his peg leg.

6. Who is Nikki speaking to when Duff goes to find him?
(a) Norman Hradsky.
(b) Candy Rautenbach.
(c) Waite Courtney.
(d) Francois du Toit.

7. Why is Garrick offered the Victorian Cross?
(a) He helped rescue prisoners.
(b) He transported men to safety.
(c) He took on a group of Zulu warriors himself.
(d) He fell against the door and held back the Zulus.

8. Why does Sean trade chores with Garrick?
(a) Garrick's peg leg was broken, and he was unable to get around.
(b) Garrick asked him to trade with him.
(c) Garrick likes mixing dip tanks better than branding.
(d) He continues to feel guilty about causing his brother's accident.

9. What is Duff elected the chairman of?
(a) The Digger's Committee.
(b) The Miner's Committee.
(c) The Digger's Community.
(d) The Miner's Community.

10. What does Sean make everyone do before attacking the people trespassing on their stake?
(a) Get into formations.
(b) Nothing. He does not ask them to wait.
(c) Find out why they are there.
(d) Wait until the trespassers are on Candy Deep property.

11. When does Anna tell Sean the truth about her pregnancy?
(a) While Garrick is working.
(b) After she has been drinking.
(c) When he comes in from tending cattle for the day.
(d) When he unexpectedly returns to the house from Ada's without Garrick.

12. What gift does their father give the twins for Christmas?
(a) Tools.
(b) Homes.
(c) Horses.
(d) Guns.

13. Why does Garrick ask Anna to marry him?
(a) She asks him to.
(b) She is carrying Sean's child.
(c) He wants her father's land.
(d) He loves her.

14. Who gives Sean and Duff a last little bit of money when it runs out again?
(a) Hradsky.
(b) Francois.
(c) Candy.
(d) Max.

15. In what new venture do Dufford and Sean have a fifty-fifty partnership?
(a) Mining for diamonds.
(b) Cattle herding.
(c) Farming.
(d) Mining for gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of 10 tons of rock passing through the stamp mill?

2. Where are the men from Ladyburg going to fight?

3. What does Garrick anxiously await as he recovers?

4. Who is Duff going to get a stamp mill from?

5. When does Sean intend to return to Ladyburg?

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