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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Duff have his first convulsion?
(a) Before sunset.
(b) By noon.
(c) Before dawn the next morning.
(d) After sunset.

2. What does the doctor prescribe for Katrina?
(a) Tree roots.
(b) Love.
(c) Herbal teas.
(d) Bed rest.

3. When does Sean return to Candy's Deep?
(a) The following week.
(b) The next day.
(c) Three days later.
(d) He does not return.

4. Who does Katrina take an immediate dislike to?
(a) Anna.
(b) Candy.
(c) Audry.
(d) Dennis.

5. When the Leroux group return, when is the fight declared over?
(a) Jan gives up.
(b) Sean gives up.
(c) Sean and Jan fight until it is declared a draw.
(d) Sean and Oupa fight until it is declared a draw.

6. What happens when rumors start to buzz around the exchange about Sean and Duff?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) People believe they are going out of business.
(c) Share prices drop.
(d) Share prices skyrocket.

7. What does Sean help the women at the Leroux camp do?
(a) He leads the wagons across the river.
(b) He leads the oxen across the river.
(c) He helps them take the camp across the river.
(d) All of these options.

8. What does Sean plan to do to protest Katrina's request?
(a) Find another wife.
(b) Refuse to help her with anything.
(c) Not speak to her.
(d) Keep her locked in a wagon.

9. When is Duff attacked?
(a) When he strays from camp before daybreak.
(b) While he sleeps in his tent.
(c) During the middle of a hunt in the wilderness.
(d) When he leaves the campfire one night.

10. What does Sean tell Candy he's realized after being trapped in the mine?
(a) He no longer wants to run the mines.
(b) People do matter.
(c) People don't matter.
(d) Only business matters.

11. What does the doctor say is wrong with Katrina at the end of the book?
(a) She is pregnant again.
(b) Malaria outbreak.
(c) Paralytic hysteria.
(d) High fever.

12. Who does Sean want to marry?
(a) Katrina.
(b) Jan.
(c) Ouma.
(d) Oupa.

13. What does Sean's old neighbor tell him?
(a) Garrick and Anna are doing well.
(b) Garrick has lost the farm.
(c) Garrick has lost half of his cattle.
(d) Garrick gave the farm back to Ada.

14. What happens to Katrina and Sean's second baby?
(a) The baby is stillborn.
(b) Katrina continues to carry their baby full-term.
(c) The baby is born prematurely, but survives.
(d) The baby is born prematurely, but does not survive.

15. How does fatherhood effect Sean?
(a) He does not seem to be effected.
(b) He feels a strong sense of responsibility, but doesn't feel a strong sense of attachment.
(c) He is unbelievably proud and loves his son.
(d) He loves his son, but lets Katrina care for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Sean shoot Duff when he realizes Duff is rabid?

2. What happens to Sean while he's trying to get to Nova Sofala?

3. What does Katrina say is in the chamber pot?

4. What happens when Sean and Duff come across their first bull elephants?

5. What illness affects Katrina?

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