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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. According to the Digger's Committee, what is the wage Zouga is allowed to pay his men?
(a) Six shillings.
(b) Seven shillings.
(c) Five shillings.
(d) Eight shillings.

2. Who presides over Zouga's sorting table?
(a) Cecil Rhodes.
(b) Ralph Ballantyne.
(c) Jan Cheroot.
(d) Bazo.

3. What spooks the horse that causes the horse to bolt, ultimately killing the horse's rider?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A thunderclap.
(c) A tarpaulin.
(d) A lightning bolt.

4. How big is the largest diamond that the man who finds the enrichment finds?
(a) Twenty carats.
(b) Fifteen carats.
(c) Eighteen carats.
(d) Ten carats.

5. What is the title that the members of the mess are known by?
(a) The Land Baron.
(b) The Swells.
(c) The Gents.
(d) The Robbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Ralph and Jordan's teacher?

2. What is the name of the first warrior that returns Zouga's greeting and introduces himself to Zouga?

3. Which character is a police officer?

4. What does Zouga name the huge tract of the African interior that he owns?

5. When Zouga's sister turns Mungo in and the British navy boards Mungo's ship, how many slaves are on the ship as living cargo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the leader of the tribal warriors respond when Zouga asks them why they are seeking their "treasure"?

2. What most surprises Zouga when he first arrives in Colesberg?

3. After the road caves in, why does Zouga send his Matabele down into the pressure crack that the water had opened?

4. After Mungo has been released from prison in Cape Town, Zouga loses contact with Mungo. How do they finally make contact with each other again?

5. As Zouga prepares to keep the rendezvous with the nameless man, Zouga only has his claims left to sell. Why is Zouga unwilling to sell his claims?

6. How does the tribal warrior recognize Zouga when the men first meet in the desert while Zouga is searching for workers?

7. What first attracted Zouga's wife to Zouga?

8. Why does Zouga's wife insist on accompanying him to Colesberg as the story begins?

9. How are edicts from the Digger's Committee enforced?

10. When Jordan accepts the job that is offered to him when he delivers the statue to its new owner, what is Jordan's first responsibility at his new job?

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