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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the trader's wife?
(a) Rhonda.
(b) Rose.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Rita.

2. What does Grandmother pay to resolve the issue of the murdered man?
(a) Two pounds of sugar cane.
(b) Two months of wheat harvest.
(c) Two cows.
(d) Two sacks of mealies.

3. Who helps a girl when she reaches womanhood?
(a) The mother.
(b) The eldest sister.
(c) An aunt.
(d) A grandmother.

4. What does the family not do while eating dinner?
(a) Chew their food.
(b) Drink.
(c) Look at each other.
(d) Talk.

5. What does the trader's wife think of the muvuki?
(a) He is greedy.
(b) He is a fraud.
(c) He is a wise man.
(d) He is crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Nhamo compare the trading post?

2. What does Nhamo hear as she is leaving the small island?

3. What is a zango?

4. What does Nhamo see in the night that gives her hope?

5. Where does Nhamo sleep while on the big island?

(see the answer key)

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