A Girl Named Disaster Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Nancy Farmer
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A Girl Named Disaster Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Nhamo when her mother died?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

3. Why does Ruva stop eating?
(a) She is worried about her family.
(b) She wants to die to be with her mother.
(c) She wants the sick people to have her share.
(d) She is sick.

4. What does Long Teats eat?
(a) Finger nails.
(b) Children.
(c) Dead humans.
(d) Baby's blood.

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

6. Where does Nhamo get the clay she uses to repair her boat?
(a) The river banks.
(b) A baboon nest.
(c) A termite hill.
(d) A beaver dam.

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

8. In a dream, what does Crocodile Guts remind Nhamo to do?
(a) Listen to the njuzu.
(b) Thank the ancestors.
(c) Pack food for her journey.
(d) Have faith in her abilities.

9. What kind of insect does Nhamo roast to eat?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Grasshopper.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Beetle.

10. How does Nhamo travel against the current?
(a) She lets the wind blow her.
(b) She paddles hard when the current is weak.
(c) She zigzags.
(d) She turns the boat in wide circles.

11. What kind of animal causes Nhamo to take a break from her boating?
(a) Hippo.
(b) Rhino.
(c) Crocodile.
(d) Snake.

12. What does Nhamo get to protect her from Long Teats?
(a) A phial of spring water.
(b) Face paint.
(c) A large fire.
(d) Long branches.

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

14. What does Masvita's aunt die from?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Tuberculosis.

15. What is wrong with the lone baboon on the island?
(a) It has a deformed arm.
(b) It is missing an eye.
(c) It has a gash on its back.
(d) It has a twisted foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nhamo sitting in a fig tree at the beginning of the book?

2. What is Nhamo's mother's name?

3. What is Princess Senwa's husband's name?

4. Who calls Nhamo's mother a witch?

5. What does a baby baboon do that makes Nhamo feel comforted?

(see the answer keys)

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