Midterm #2

Question 1

Keppel Hones says that the Europeans to arrive at the Cape were:

Answer 1

The Portuguese

Question 2

The DUEIC was founded in:

Answer 2

1602

Question 3

In the 17th C, the average sea voyage from the Netherlands to the East Indies lasted:

Answer 3

Six months

Question 4

Until 1869 the Cape settlement mainly existed for:

Answer 4

As a way station between Europe and India

Question 5

The first British ocuaption of the Cape Colony was in:

Answer 5

1795

Question 6

The Dutch East India Company:

Answer 6

Had its own army and navy

Question 7

In 1688 the Cape Colony:

Answer 7

Welcomed the arrival of Hugenot refugees

Question 8

In 18th C the Cape Colony was divided into:

Answer 8

Three distinct classes

Question 9

In the 18th C Land ownership in the Cape was governed by:

Answer 9

Dutch East India Company Law

Question 10

Kepple-Jones argues that the Dutch settlers who became farmers were:

Answer 10

Devote members of Dutch Reformed Churches

Question 11

In the 18th C the colonists who had little contact with the outside world:

Answer 11

Slowly developed their own distinct language

Question 12

Kepple Jones argues that the revolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment

Answer 12

Had no impact on the rural farmers of the Cape

Question 13

The cape farmers developed a new military organization known as:

Answer 13

COMMANDO

Question 14

Kepple Jones says that in 1713 the Hottentots were wiped out by:

Answer 14

A smallpox epidemic

Question 15

The new language of European colonists was finally called:

Answer 15

Afrikaans

Question 16

In the early 17th C the ratio of men to women at the Cape was:

Answer 16

5 to 1

Question 17

Kepple Jones argues that racial prejudice developed as a result of:

Answer 17

Contact with slaves, Hottentots, and Bushmen

Question 18

The intermixture of different races in the Cape created a people who called themselves:

Answer 18

Bastards

Question 19

The Griquas were:

Answer 19

Descended from Hottentots and Europeans

Question 20

The earliest Christian mission work Kepple Jones mentions was:

Answer 20

Begun after the arrival of Dr. Vanderkemp in 1799

Question 21

White settlers in South Africa believed that the London Missionary Society:

Answer 21

Encouraged an independent and disrespectful spirit

Question 22

In 1812 missionaries:

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Laid charges against white settlers for mistreating their servants

Question 23

The Black Circuit was a court that:

Answer 23

Was a circuit court that prosecuted farmers who mistreated their servants

Question 24

The missionary John Phillip was:

Answer 24

A champion of Hottentot interests

Question 25

In the 1770s, the northerly expansion of white farmers, the Boers, came to a halt as a result of:

Answer 25

Contact with densely populated African societies beyond the Fish River

Question 26

Arabs called Black Africans:

Answer 26

Kaffirs

Question 27

Kepple-Jones says the beginning and end of the Kaffir Wars are:

Answer 27

Hard to determine

Question 28

Kepple Jones describes the Zulu King Shaka as:

Answer 28

The Black Napoleon

Question 29

Nongquase was a Xhosa prophet who:

Answer 29

Instigated the Xhosa to kill their cattle and eat all of their crops

Question 30

The Voortrekkers were inspired by:

Answer 30

Political, social and ideological motives

Question 31

What is known as the Great Trek by Voortrekkers occurred:

Answer 31

Between 1836-1838

Question 32

After the Zulu King Dingaan killed Piet Retief and the men who were with him trying to buy land from the Zulu:

Answer 32

Andries Pretorious and his forces defeated the Zulu at the battle of blood river

Question 33

The Battle of the Blood River took place on:

Answer 33

December 16th, 1838

Question 34

In 1820 the British:

Answer 34

brought around 5000 English settlers to the Eastern Cape

Question 35

To ensure that South Africa would remain British the government:

Answer 35

Began a program of anglicization using language, religion and education

Question 36

In mid 19th C, Britain and South Africa idea of _____

Answer 36

The idea of empire was opposed by that of free trade

Question 37

In relation to Zululand, Bishop Colenso is described as:

Answer 37

An apologist for the Zulu

Question 38

The British Prime Minister Disraeli described the Zulu as:

Answer 38

Very remarkable people

Question 39

When war broke out between Britian and South African Republic, known as the Transvaal in 1880-1881:

Answer 39

The British were defeated at the Battle of Majuba

Question 40

Diamonds were discovered in South Africa in:

Answer 40

1868

Question 41

Gold was discovered on the Wiwatersrand in:

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1886

Question 42

Whose sense of mission and goal was to unify South Africa under British control?

Answer 42

Rhodes

Question 43

Commenting on the Boer War Concentration Camps Kepple Jones says:

Answer 43

The policy might even be called humane

Question 44

The treaty that ended the second Anglo-Boer War was called:

Answer 44

The Treaty of vereeniging

Question 45

The claim that Africans lacked religion:

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Led to their exploitation

Question 46

Oosthuizen claimed that new African religions were:

Answer 46

Distinct from Christianity

Question 47

The idea that African religions were potentially dangerous was promoted by the novel:

Answer 47

Prester John

Question 48

The popular name for politically motivated African religious movements was:

Answer 48

Ethiopianism

Question 49

When Absolom Vilakazi criticisms of Oosthuizen's work were made known:

Answer 49

Amos Shembe applied for a court injunction to prevent thier publication

Question 50

A major mistake made by many scholars when interpreting new African religions is:

Answer 50

They expect them to appear with mature and stable theologies

Question 51

At the core of all primal religions are:

Answer 51

Experiences that defy rational explanation

Question 52

African religions, like that of the amaNazareth, involves myths defined as:

Answer 52

Stories with culturally formative power

Question 53

Both Amos and Londa Shembe acknowledged that the amaNazareta owed a debt to:

Answer 53

Christianity

Question 54

For scholars like Hugh Trevor Roper Africa had:

Answer 54

No real history

Question 55

Axel-Iver Berglund, Eillen Kriege and Isaac Shepera all appear to promote the idea that central to the Zulu belief was

Answer 55

belief in asky deity

Question 56

After Callaway's intial work on Zulu religion other writers take up the idea of:

Answer 56

Unkulunkulu and the Lord of Heaven

Question 57

From Callaway's texts it is clear that the term Unkulunkulu had the primary meaning of:

Answer 57

The Zulu understanding of ancestor

Question 58

When the earliest sources for information about Zulu religion are examined they depict a:

Answer 58

Essentially secularized society

Question 59

When Alan Gardiner met the Zulu King Dingaan he commented:

Answer 59

What was God he could not at all comprehend

Question 60

When Europeans first arrived in Zululand they had a superiority based on:

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Their possession of firearms and the ability to read

Question 61

Zulu society met the challenge of European beliefs (HOW?)

Answer 61

By a creative response that gave birth to a new tradition

Question 62

Sheila Patterson and other writers, like Kepple-Jones, argued that when the Cape Dutch moved into the interior, they took with them:

Answer 62

The doctrines and ways of thinking of 16th C Calvinism

Question 63

Early Afrikaner Nationalists

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Accepted that they were inspired by Calvinism but rejected the idea that they were bigots

Question 64

Afrikaner writers contrasted their views of those of the British which they argued were rooted in concepts of:

Answer 64

Deism

Question 65

The Theory of the Calvinist origins of Afrikaner Nationalism and apartheid is identified in the article as:

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The received opinion

Question 66

The article argues that to claim that the "theology of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa maintained a 16th C form of Dutch Calvinism which promoted apartheid", it is necessary to show:

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That the theology of the DRC conformed to the official standards of the Synod of Dort

Question 67

The evidence suggests that the majority of ministers in the DRC during the 19th C were:

Answer 67

Hostile to an orthodox form of Calvinism

Question 68

Many ministers in the DRC, like Kotze and Burgers, rejected:

Answer 68

Christian teaching about the resurrection of the dead

Question 69

Led by Andre Murray, between the 1860s and 1880s there was:

Answer 69

An outburst of evangelical enthusiasm

Question 70

In a sense, the first real Afrikaner Nationalist was:

Answer 70

S.J. du Toit

Question 71

To appreciate the role of the Reformed Church in the Creation of Afrikaner Nationalism, it is necessary to understand:

Answer 71

The Dutch origins of Calvinist political ideology

Question 72

The first modern Dutch political party was:

Answer 72

the Anti-Revolutionary Party

Question 73

Which European University had a major influence on Afrikaner Nationalism?

Answer 73

The Free University of Amsterdam

Question 74

The South African National Party which after a long development created apartheid was founded inL

Answer 74

1913

Question 75

The founders of the National Party were described by contemporaries as:

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Doppers and Hollanders

Question 76

The article argues that J D du Toit wrote popular poetry that:

Answer 76

provided Afrikaners with a Calvinist interpretation of social reality

Question 77

J D du Toit was:

Answer 77

Professor of theology in Potchefstroom

Question 78

The article states that the death rate in the British Concentration Camps was:

Answer 78

One in twelve

Question 79

The monument poems were:

Answer 79

Dedicated to the women and children who died in the Concentration Camps

Question 80

In the poems, a returning prisoner of war laments:

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My wife and child will return no more

Question 81

In his poem about the Biblical character of Rachel Du toit links her to:

Answer 81

Afrikaner women who were pushed out in to the veld

Question 82

In the poems Afrikaners are seen as:

Answer 82

The servants of God

Question 83

In the poem, Potgieter's Trek one verse describes Afrikaners as:

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If Afrikaners forget God, then they will suffer-woe to them

Question 84

In his poem, Trekkerswee, or the Trekkers Grief we find the idea that:

Answer 84

If Afrikaner's forget God then they will suffer-woe to them

Question 85

The article argues Totius' poem Trekkerswee shows evidence of:

Answer 85

Believe if the existence and unity of the Afrikaner nation in the pre-war period before the Second Anglo-Boer War

Question 86

The article speaks to a vision of a future Afrikaner society based on:

Answer 86

A return to the traditions of the people

Question 87

The impact of the Totius poetry is described towards the end of the article as:

Answer 87

A civil religion