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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Kufa take the family after the cholera epidemic?
(a) The burial grounds.
(b) The trading post.
(c) The cleanser.
(d) The great falls.

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

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

5. What shows that Masvita is entering womanhood?
(a) Her monthly bleeding.
(b) Her prominent brow.
(c) Her sprouting bosoms.
(d) Her long hair.

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

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

8. In what lake is the island?
(a) Cabrinda Bissa.
(b) Carbona Bassa.
(c) Cabora Bassa.
(d) Calenda Blessa.

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

10. To what does Nhamo compare the baboons as she watches them by the river?
(a) Spirits.
(b) Devils.
(c) Humans.
(d) Monkeys.

11. 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.

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

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

14. What does Nhamo make out of the bark of the tree?
(a) An insect repellant.
(b) A belt.
(c) Twine.
(d) Seasoning.

15. What is Princess Senwa's husband's name?
(a) Karken.
(b) Kinkla.
(c) Kakono.
(d) Kramona.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the family not do while eating dinner?

2. What does Nhamo see in the night that gives her hope?

3. Who tells Nhamo to find more people in her life?

4. How does Nhamo decide to get herself off the island?

5. What does Nhamo have to fight off when she first gets to the big island?

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