A Girl Named Disaster | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

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

She is trying to avoid doing chores.

2. What is the hozi?

A communal storage facility.

3. What chore is Masvita doing while Nhamo prepares dinner?

Making pots.

4. What killed Nhamo's mother?

A leopard.

5. What is Nhamo's most prized possession?

A magazine cover.

6. How old was Nhamo when her mother died?

3.

Chapter 3 | Chapter 4

1. What does the family not do while eating dinner?

Talk.

2. What does Nhamo use to wash the dishes?

Ash and sand.

3. What does Kufa say the disobedient wife was eaten by?

A snake.

4. What shows that Masvita is entering womanhood?

Her monthly bleeding.

5. Who helps a girl when she reaches womanhood?

An aunt.

6. Who notices that Nhamo is jealous of Masvita's womanhood?

Grandmother.

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