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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V, The Trekboers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gao prove his bravery during the hunt?
(a) He approaches the biggest antelope and spears it.
(b) He risks his safety to help his father fight the lions.
(c) He attacks the eland with his bare hands.
(d) He approaches a herd of antelope without assistance.

2. With whom does Willem Van Doorn fall in love and father two children?
(a) A slave girl named Ateh.
(b) A French woman named Danielle.
(c) An English woman named Julia.
(d) A Dutch woman named Hanneke.

3. How old is Gumsto when he first appears in the novel?
(a) Forty-three.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

4. What does the Old Seeker show Nxumalo and Chief Ngalo after he sees the "heavy earth"?
(a) A camel.
(b) Silk from China.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A golden amulet from Persia.

5. How does Naoka's first husband die?
(a) He drowns.
(b) He dies of a fever.
(c) Gumsto murders him.
(d) A rhinoceros kills him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Captain Saltwood's crew members does Willem Van Doorn befriend?

2. Which Van Doorn first becomes a Trekboer?

3. Which Van Doorn befriends the slave Dikkop in Chapter Five?

4. For what purpose are the small San people enslaved and used by the people of Zimbabwe?

5. What kind of shelters do Gumsto's clan members make for their dwellings?

(see the answer key)

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