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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take Ralph and Harry to peg their new claims in Wankie's country?
(a) Three months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three weeks.

2. What are amaholi?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Healers.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Elephants.

3. According to the news from Bulawayo, where are Jameson's men preparing to attack?
(a) Cape Town.
(b) Kimberley.
(c) Johannesberg.
(d) Pitsani.

4. When Ralph is summoned to King's Lynn, who is NOT waiting for him?
(a) Percy Fitzpatrick.
(b) Robyn St. John.
(c) Cecil Rhodes.
(d) Mungo St. John.

5. When Bazo and Ralph part, when does Bazo tell Ralph that the two men will meet again?
(a) After the morning dews.
(b) After the great storms.
(c) After the crow flies.
(d) After the thunderous claps.

6. According to the news from Bulawayo, how many men does Jameson have mounted and armed?
(a) 600.
(b) 750.
(c) 350.
(d) 300.

7. At Khami Mission, who tells the girls that hundreds of soldiers are riding past the church?
(a) Old Abe.
(b) Old Mack.
(c) Old Moses.
(d) Old Bart.

8. In Tanase's vision, how does Bazo die?
(a) He is stabbed.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is starved.
(d) He is hung.

9. Who is Gandang's son?
(a) Tanase.
(b) Bazo.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Zouga.

10. When Robyn tells Mungo to leave the mission, Mungo sees the sky turning an unusual color in the distance. What is Mungo seeing?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Fires.
(c) Bees.
(d) Pollution.

11. When Ralph goes to short sell two companies, how many shares of each company does Ralph want to trade?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Two hundred thousand.

12. In preparation for their attack, who tells Bazo who is staying at the Khami Mission?
(a) Tanase.
(b) Louise.
(c) Nomusa.
(d) Juba.

13. As the novel begins, how many wagons does Ralph own?
(a) 100.
(b) 50.
(c) 150.
(d) 200.

14. As Juba and Bazo talk about killing the white men, who does Bazo say that he will kill himself?
(a) One-Bright-Eye.
(b) Nomusa.
(c) Bakela.
(d) Henshaw.

15. Who does Robyn forbid her children to contact if Robyn's study goes awry?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Zouga.
(d) Mungo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed between when Zouga arrives in the land between the Limpopo and the Zambezi rivers at the beginning of the novel and when he had last been in this same area?

2. What is the name of Robyn's only son?

3. What is the Matabele name given to Ralph?

4. What animals are drawing the soldiers' transport carts?

5. Before the occupation of the company, when a senior wife of an indunas had traveled, how many attendants would be with her?

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