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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes every opportunity to remind the Dutch survivors of the war about the mistreatment of the English?
(a) Christoffel Steyn.
(b) Paulus DeGroot.
(c) Micah Nxumalo.
(d) Jakob Van Doorn.

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

3. What interactions do the Voortrekkers have with the Zulu warrior Dingane?
(a) Dingane agrees to herd cattle and sheep for them.
(b) Dingane guides them through dangerous Bantu land.
(c) Dingane promises them land rights, but plans to kill them.
(d) Dingane signs a peace treaty with them.

4. In 1857, what does the Xhosa prophet, Nonqause, inaccurately predict?
(a) That a disease will wipe out the Dutch Boers.
(b) That the Xhosa will defeat the Zulus.
(c) That rain will fall to end the longstanding drought.
(d) That the Russians will help the Xhosa defeat the English.

5. Who does Tjaart Van Doorn marry when his first wife, Jakoba, dies?
(a) Aletta.
(b) Anna.
(c) Laura.
(d) Henrietta.

6. Why does Detleef refuse to accept the blue ribbon for his prize bull?
(a) He's angry his sheep didn't win blue ribbons also.
(b) He is modest and shuns publicity.
(c) He doesn't think his bull deserves to win.
(d) The king will present the ribbon, and he opposes the king.

7. For what is Daniel Nxumalo arrested in Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Speaking about politics in public.
(b) Theft.
(c) Forgery.
(d) Public intoxication.

8. Which of the following is not a law Detleef helps pass once he's in parliament?
(a) Laws demanding military service for all men.
(b) Laws legalizing segregation of the races in South Africa.
(c) Laws against interracial marriages.
(d) Laws removing voting rights from people of mixed race.

9. What inspires the English to pass the new law at the beginning of Chapter Eight?
(a) The murder of a slave by a Dutchman.
(b) Simon Keer's novel about Dutch slaveholders.
(c) A slave uprising.
(d) A rash of cattle thefts.

10. Who do the authorities ask to testify against Daniel Nxumalo?
(a) Sannie Van Doorn.
(b) Philip Saltwood.
(c) Marius Van Doorn.
(d) Frikkie Troxel.

11. How old is Paulus DeGroot during the war with the English?
(a) He's in his forties.
(b) He's in his twenties.
(c) He's in his thirties.
(d) He's in his sixties.

12. Why does the Dutch Reform Church not sanction the Voortrekkers?
(a) The Voortrekkers are violent.
(b) The Voortrekkers are French rather than Dutch.
(c) The Voortrekkers prefer Catholicism.
(d) They consider the Voortrekkers revolutionaries.

13. To what do the economic conditions in Johannesburg lead?
(a) A move of miners to New Zealand.
(b) A move of miners to Zimbabwe.
(c) A violent strike in which hundreds die.
(d) A closing of the mines.

14. Who is the leader of the Venloo Commandos?
(a) Jakob Van Doorn.
(b) Micah Nxumalo.
(c) Paulus DeGroot.
(d) Christoffel Steyn.

15. Why are farmers living in squalor in the city when Detleef visits it in Chapter Twelve?
(a) Drought has forced them off their land.
(b) The English burned their crops.
(c) The Zulus burned their crops.
(d) Their crops were destroyed by insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richard Saltwood help the Xhosa in Chapter Nine?

2. Who leads the Voortrekkers as a general when they battle with the Zulus at Blood River in 1838?

3. What law do the English pass at the beginning of Chapter Eight?

4. How old is Heather Botha in Chapter Thirteen?

5. Who does Cecil Rhodes believe built the great city of Zimbabwe?

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