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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nhamo harden her wood spears?
(a) She lines them with rocks.
(b) She whittles them.
(c) She wets them.
(d) She burns them.

2. What useful item does Nhamo find in the hut on the island?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A knife.
(c) A rudding stick.
(d) Some rope.

3. Which baboon gets into Nhamo's platform?
(a) Fat Cheeks.
(b) Stumpy.
(c) Tag.
(d) Rumpy.

4. What does the farmer in Nhamo's story do to get back at the baboons?
(a) Poisons the waterhole.
(b) Kidnaps their leader.
(c) Digs a pit.
(d) Takes their food.

5. What do the baboons do when they see Nhamo at the river getting water?
(a) Run from her.
(b) Ignore her.
(c) Attack her.
(d) Embrace her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What starts while Nhamo is fighting against the current?

2. What does Nhamo's mother tell her after she learns about the leopard on the island?

3. Why does Nhamo procrastinate checking her animal traps?

4. To what does Nhamo compare the trading post?

5. What does Nhamo see as a sign that she can keep the item she found in the hut on the island?

(see the answer key)

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