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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport do Pieter and the new dominee have in common?
(a) Dog racing.
(b) Rugby.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Car racing.

2. In Chapter 9, who is already at Stephanie's trial when Sophie arrives?
(a) Jakob.
(b) Esther.
(c) Japie.
(d) Pieter.

3. Who suggests Pieter take Nella away for a holiday?
(a) Pieter's mother.
(b) Nella.
(c) Jakob.
(d) Sophie.

4. Who is sentenced to death for violating the immorality act, but not necessarily for murder?
(a) Erick.
(b) Steyn.
(c) Smith.
(d) Dick.

5. Who spit and turned away from Pieter instead of greeting him?
(a) Matthew Kaplan.
(b) Herman Geyer.
(c) Dominee Stander.
(d) Abraham Kaplan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what does Sophie remember being afraid Pieter would fall from when he was a sick boy in her care?

2. Before the note, what did Pieter plan to do to cleanse his corruption?

3. Jokingly, what does Japie promise one night to seek out Pieter's advice on?

4. Who is the new dominee assisting Dominee Stander?

5. With whom, during an argument, does Pieter declare that he gives when he is given to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pieter decide not to confide in the new dominee about Stephanie? Later, why not confide in Nella? Who does he decide to confide in?

2. In Chapter 4, what details from the story most likely support the narrator's claim that the lieutenant had different thoughts in his mind about things than others like him did?

3. Why does Kappie call Pieter lieutenant even though Pieter insists that Kappie call him by his first name?

4. What news does Japie bring about Stephanie and Abraham Kaplan?

5. After hiding the note he found on his door, what are Pieter's thoughts about what he has done with Stephanie?

6. How does the news of Pieter's charges affect Frans, Sophie and Pieter's mom?

7. What happened with small pox in Venterspan?

8. After being with Stephanie a second time, the lieutenant is even more upset with himself. How does he respond to being asked to be a diaken?

9. Why does Pieter refuse dinner at his father's the first night after he has been with Stephanie?

10. Why was the young dominee so sad?

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