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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XII, Achievement of a Puritan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richard Saltwood earn the name Cupid in Chapter Nine?
(a) He brings a minister to town to perform marriages.
(b) He helps unmarried Englishmen find wives in Africa.
(c) He arranges marriages for his Boer neighbors.
(d) He helps the German recruits take wives with them to Africa.

2. Who becomes governor of Java in Chapter Three?
(a) Captain Nicholas Smallwood.
(b) Karel Van Doorn.
(c) Willem Van Doorn.
(d) Jonathan Maxwell.

3. When he is a boy, why does Shaka think he will one day be the Zulu chief?
(a) He is good with a spear and thinks he'll be a great warrior.
(b) He is very popular with the other boys.
(c) Although he's a tribal outcast, he's the chief's son.
(d) He is arrogant and has a high opinion of his abilities.

4. How many rhinoceros horns does the Old Seeker tell chief Ngalo he needs?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

5. Who does Johanna Van Doorn marry?
(a) Adriaan DeGroot.
(b) Jonathan Amberson, the English teacher.
(c) Piet Krause, the Afrikaaner teacher.
(d) Josef Steyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karel Van Doorn want to do with the secret purchase Paul de Prè brings back from France?

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

3. What causes the loss of horses and oxen at the end of Chapter Eight as the Voortrekkers journey to Zimbabwe?

4. What nationality is the man who establishes the fort at Malacca in 1511?

5. Who does Tjaart Van Doorn marry when his first wife, Jakoba, dies?

(see the answer key)

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