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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Pages 551 - 599.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pulls up the huge champagne-colored diamond on the third day of the digging frenzy?
(a) Calvin Hine.
(b) Zouga Ballantyne.
(c) Neville Pickering.
(d) Cecil Rhodes.

2. Who proposes Mungo St. John for membership into the Kimberley Club?
(a) Zouga Ballantyne.
(b) Neville Pickering.
(c) Leander Jameson.
(d) Cecil Rhodes.

3. After the fight between Zouga and the nameless man, who comes to Zouga's rescue?
(a) Jan Cheroot.
(b) Bazo.
(c) Jordan Ballantyne.
(d) Ralph Ballantyne.

4. Which of the Codrington girls asks if God allows a girl to marry her own cousin, because she is so taken with Ralph?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Salina.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Catherine.

5. When does the British Foreign Secretary approve the occupation of Mashonaland?
(a) September 1892.
(b) April 1892.
(c) July 1890.
(d) February 1890.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ralph and Zouga are working together again, what troubles Zouga about Ralph?

2. Where is Mungo when he receives a letter telling him that his wife has died in France?

3. Who witnesses the entire physical fight that occurs between Ralph and Zouga?

4. What stands at the head of the steps to the cottage that used to belong to Tom Harkness that Zouga is now living in?

5. From what tribe are the men that Zouga comes upon as he is searching for men to work his diamond claims?

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