NOTE: Answer the questions set on BOTH extracts.
EXTRACT A
A young mother and friend of mine, who joined me later in the course of our flight, gave
me some harrowing details of the attack. She herself had one of her breasts ripped open by
one of those human vultures and the running and bleeding exhausted her soon after she
Joined me. She begged me to leave and fly with the little ones. She told me that the
Matabele took her baby from her and dashed its little head upon a rock till its brains
bespattered those around. Other women, she told me, met their death heroically. My
cousin Balle, she said, was near her when she received a stab from a Matabele who spoke
our tongue fluently; and Baile said to him: 'Kill me, you coward, go back and brag that you
have killed a woman in kirtles. If that be your Zulu prowess, I admire the Bechuana trait of
measuring strength with bearded men, and never defiling their spears with women's blood.'
1. Who are our main characters in this novel?
2. What is the name of the tribe that was called "human vultures"?
3. What was regarded as a taboo by the Barolong?
4. Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentence. Write only the
answer (A-D) in the Answer sheet.
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