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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ruva stop eating?
(a) She is sick.
(b) She is worried about her family.
(c) She wants to die to be with her mother.
(d) She wants the sick people to have her share.

3. Where does Masvita go after the meeting with the muvuki?
(a) Vatete's village.
(b) Her home village.
(c) The inn.
(d) The trader's house.

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

5. How old was Nhamo when her mother died?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nhamo's mother's name?

2. Who calls Nhamo's mother a witch?

3. Why is Nhamo sitting in a fig tree at the beginning of the book?

4. What shows that Masvita is entering womanhood?

5. What killed Nhamo's mother?

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