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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nhamo use to hollow out her boat?
(a) Termites.
(b) A spear.
(c) Hot coals.
(d) Acidic venom.

2. How does Nhamo feel when she is in the boat on her first day?
(a) Alone.
(b) Excited.
(c) Scared.
(d) Confused.

3. What are njuzu?
(a) River scavengers.
(b) Strange waves.
(c) Water spirits.
(d) Nutritional water plants.

4. Who notices that Nhamo is jealous of Masvita's womanhood?
(a) Masvita.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Chipo.
(d) Kafu.

5. What is the name of Nhamo's favorite baboon baby?
(a) Tim.
(b) Tag.
(c) Tick.
(d) Tom.

6. What killed Nhamo's mother?
(a) A leopard.
(b) A strange sickness.
(c) A jealous man.
(d) A lion.

7. What is a nganga?
(a) A sorcerer.
(b) A healer.
(c) A priest.
(d) A leader.

8. Why is the boy in Nhamo's story making a rope?
(a) To pull his grandmother's farm closer.
(b) To tie up his future wife.
(c) To wrap the world.
(d) To climb to the sky.

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

10. What does Nhamo name the deformed baboon?
(a) Rumpy.
(b) Fat Cheeks.
(c) Big Belly.
(d) Stumpy.

11. Who did Useless marry?
(a) A princess.
(b) A muzuki.
(c) A njuzu.
(d) A nganga.

12. What does Nhamo take her grandmother to see when they reach their destination?
(a) A snake charmer.
(b) A television.
(c) A wrestling match.
(d) A guitar player.

13. Where does Nhamo's father's family live?
(a) Zimbabwe.
(b) Ghana.
(c) Madagascar.
(d) Zaire.

14. To what kind of tree does Nhamo tie her boat when she gets to the big island?
(a) Coconut tree.
(b) Fig tree.
(c) Oak tree.
(d) Water tree.

15. Whom does Nhamo dream about going over a cliff?
(a) Chipo.
(b) Crocodile Guts.
(c) Masvita.
(d) Grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nhamo teach herself during her boat journey?

2. Why does Nhamo procrastinate checking her animal traps?

3. How does Nhamo travel against the current?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the food items Nhamo finds on the big island?

5. What does Nhamo get stung by while working on her boat?

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