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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does a haze tell Nhamo one day at Efifi?
(a) Grandmother is dead.
(b) Her father has passed on.
(c) Her family is waiting.
(d) She has honored her mother.

2. What does Dr. Van Heerden bring back with him from the city?
(a) Some candy.
(b) Educational books.
(c) Medical supplies.
(d) His dog.

3. Where does Nhamo get the idea to plug the holes in the boat?
(a) Her mother whispers to her.
(b) A memory of Crocodile Guts.
(c) Watching termites repair their nest.
(d) Watching sap drip.

4. What is destroyed when a baboon gets into Nhamo's platform?
(a) The knife.
(b) Half of her meat supply.
(c) The magazine cover.
(d) Her clothing.

5. What is Nhamo's aunt's name in her father's family?
(a) Edna.
(b) Emily.
(c) Emma.
(d) Edina.

6. Who takes care of Nhamo when she moves to her father's family's house?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) The ngaga.
(d) The servants.

7. How is Nhamo injured after she attacks Dr. Van Heerden?
(a) Her head is bruised.
(b) Her ankle is sprained.
(c) Her hand is cut.
(d) Her wrist is broken.

8. What news does Nhamo get about Masvita during summer vacation?
(a) She is married to the man Nhamo was promised to.
(b) Her monthly bleeding never came back.
(c) She had another baby.
(d) She died.

9. Why is Nhamo not allowed to stay overnight in the village?
(a) She tells them she is from another country.
(b) She mentions that she talks to spirits.
(c) She talks about her fondness for the baboons.
(d) She tells them the leopard is tracking her.

10. What was Nhamo's father's totem animal?
(a) Baboon.
(b) Snake.
(c) Antelope.
(d) Leopard.

11. What kind of tree sap does Nhamo use to plug the holes in the boat?
(a) Mulberry.
(b) Lucky Bean.
(c) Mutowa.
(d) Palm.

12. Whom does Nhamo ask about the ceremony Baba Joseph did on her?
(a) Kira.
(b) Van Heerden.
(c) Mother.
(d) Baba Joseph.

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

14. What does Nhamo do when she sees her doctor for the first time?
(a) Throws something at him.
(b) Faints.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Screams.

15. What do the baboons do when they hear the leopard?
(a) Run in a scattered pattern.
(b) Scream.
(c) Hide in the trees.
(d) Go silent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nhamo do when she finds a goat underground?

2. Why does the person Nhamo talks to at her family's house accept her?

3. To whom does Nhamo tell her story at her family's house?

4. What signals the beginning of the rainy season?

5. Why is Nhamo not afraid of the animal that killed the carcass she finds after leaving the cave?

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