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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Black Circuit commission investigate?
(a) Charges of financial misconduct.
(b) Charges of cruelty toward and murder of native Africans.
(c) Misconduct of African slaves.
(d) The treatment of women.

2. What punishment does the governor of Java impose on slaves who try to escape?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Public whipping.
(c) Mutilation.
(d) A hefty fine.

3. Who are the first Trekboers to encounter members of the Xhosa tribe?
(a) Adriaan and Seena Van Doorn.
(b) Lodevicus and Rebecca Van Doorn.
(c) Karel and Willem Van Doorn.
(d) Adriaan Van Doorn and his slave friend Dikkop.

4. What marks the territory of each individual family in Gumsto's clan?
(a) Sticks and a few piled rocks.
(b) A patch of burned grass.
(c) A stone wall.
(d) A cooking fire.

5. To what religion does Prince Henry of Portugal wish to convert Africa?
(a) Islam.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gumsto feel entitled to take the seventeen-year-old widow Naoka as his wife?

2. Why do Seena Van Doorn and her daughter-in-law come into conflict?

3. Who does Lodevicus Van Doorn marry after his first wife is killed?

4. Who inspires Hilary Saltwood to become a missionary?

5. Where does Captain Nicholas Saltwood build his English estate?

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