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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What ruins Nhamo's traps?
(a) A wild cat.
(b) A snake.
(c) A large bird.
(d) A baboon.
2. What does Nhamo hear as she is leaving the small island?
(a) Her mother and Crocodile Guts.
(b) The wind.
(c) The njuzu singing.
(d) A roar of an animal.
3. What does Grandmother say she wants to help Nhamo do?
(a) Find a good husband.
(b) Understand her family.
(c) Escape.
(d) Be a good wife.
4. Why is Nhamo sitting in a fig tree at the beginning of the book?
(a) She is hiding from some boys.
(b) She is getting out of the heat.
(c) She is trying to avoid doing chores.
(d) She is gathering figs for dinner.
5. What does Nhamo name the deformed baboon?
(a) Fat Cheeks.
(b) Big Belly.
(c) Stumpy.
(d) Rumpy.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Nhamo procrastinate checking her animal traps?
2. What comforts Nhamo after she is stung?
3. To what does Nhamo compare the baboons as she watches them by the river?
4. What does Chipo do in the days before Nhamo's wedding?
5. How does Nhamo decide to get herself off the island?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Grandmother tell Nhamo about her mother the day Masvita enters womanhood?
2. What kinds of things occupy Nhamo's time when she is first settling on the island?
3. What does Nhamo do to calm her fears while she waits for the hippos to leave?
4. Why does Grandmother say Chipo never liked Nhamo?
5. What happens to Nhamo while she is fighting against the current, and what does this mean to her?
6. How does Nhamo feel when the hippos are gone, and why?
7. What changes in the village after the cholera passes?
8. What does Nhamo do when she finds all the food on the big island?
9. What happens when Nhamo is stung while working on her boat?
10. What story does Nhamo's grandmother tell her at the beginning of the book?
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