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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 – 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does the narrator say Kava and Leopard have been saving children in Chapter 4?
(a) 10 and 9 years.
(b) 3 and 1 moons.
(c) 1 and 5 moons.
(d) 10 and 9 moons.

2. What are the "roof walkers, night demons" (25) called that the King summons in Tracker's story in Chapter 1?
(a) Omoluzu.
(b) Bawo.
(c) Ampe.
(d) Impundulu.

3. What does the Leopard-man go back to do while Tracker and Kava wait in the bush in Chapter 3?
(a) Bury the child.
(b) Kill Tracker's uncle.
(c) Kill the snake.
(d) Kill the buffalo.

4. What word does Tracker use to refer to "a buyer of boys" in Chapter 4?
(a) Zareba.
(b) Mingi.
(c) Basha.
(d) Yumbo.

5. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1? "Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon" (12).
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the witchman in the hut call "the cool and gentle snake" in Chapter 2?

2. What "wife's poison" (16) does Tracker describe being almost poisoned with by the merchant's wife in Chapter 1?

3. What did Tracker's uncle tell him about his father in Chapter 2?

4. What does Tracker's uncle say built and then left behind the house where his grandmother lives in Chapter 2?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "I am just a man who some have called" what (12)?

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