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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 animal did Tracker watch Leopard kill on the 28th night away from the Ku in Chapter 4?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A mermaid.
(c) A goat.
(d) An antelope.

2. What "wife's poison" (16) does Tracker describe being almost poisoned with by the merchant's wife in Chapter 1?
(a) Bone dust.
(b) Cobra spit.
(c) Creek filge.
(d) Snake dung.

3. How did the missing boy's parents die, according to the slaver in Chapter 8?
(a) From a tiger attack.
(b) From drowning.
(c) From river sickness.
(d) From night sickness.

4. What kind of eye did Leopard say Tracker had in replacement of his own in Chapter 6?
(a) A lion's.
(b) A jackal's.
(c) A boy's.
(d) A tiger's.

5. What did Kava do to make the black leopard run off in Chapter 3?
(a) He shot an arrow at it.
(b) He threw water on it.
(c) He whistled at it.
(d) He slapped it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Leopard-man go back to do while Tracker and Kava wait in the bush in Chapter 3?

2. What did Leopard say his father had been doing when he found him on an island in the middle of the sea in Chapter 6?

3. By what name does Tracker address his audience in the narrative?

4. How long did the slaver give Tracker to decide whether to join the mission to look for the boy in Chapter 7?

5. What word does Tracker use to refer to "a buyer of boys" in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Tracker kill his uncle? What did he do with his uncle's head?

2. What is "Zareba" and how is it described?

3. Why did Tracker go to Monono? What did he retrieve there?

4. Who is Fumeli? What were Tracker's first impressions of him?

5. What is a frame narrative and how does this term apply to Black Leopard, Red Wolf?

6. What did Tracker observe at the ritual with the newly born "men and women" with Kava in Chapter 1? Why did they run away?

7. What is the Itaki and how is it described?

8. Where did Tracker grow up? Why did he leave home?

9. How did Tracker first find his way to Ku? Who helped him?

10. What did Tracker, Leopard, and Kava discover when they returned to Sangoma's after killing Asanbosam?

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