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

4. What does Nhamo get stung by while working on her boat?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A hornet.
(c) A bee.
(d) A horned beetle.

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

6. What does Grandmother pay to resolve the issue of the murdered man?
(a) Two sacks of mealies.
(b) Two pounds of sugar cane.
(c) Two cows.
(d) Two months of wheat harvest.

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

8. What does the trader's wife think of the muvuki?
(a) He is a fraud.
(b) He is greedy.
(c) He is crazy.
(d) He is a wise man.

9. What is Nhamo's most prized possession?
(a) A magazine cover.
(b) A chocolate wrapper.
(c) A tea cup.
(d) A tin box.

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

11. Why is Nhamo sitting in a fig tree at the beginning of the book?
(a) She is hiding from some boys.
(b) She is trying to avoid doing chores.
(c) She is gathering figs for dinner.
(d) She is getting out of the heat.

12. What does Nhamo do with the fish she catches?
(a) Smokes them.
(b) Dries them.
(c) Eats them.
(d) Uses them in animal traps.

13. What does Nhamo do in an effort to get more food?
(a) Dries her fruit.
(b) Follows the baboons.
(c) Plants a larger garden.
(d) Follows animal tracks.

14. Why does Nhamo procrastinate checking her animal traps?
(a) She does not need food.
(b) It is getting dark.
(c) She has other things to do.
(d) She is dizzy.

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