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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following do Baba Joseph's people NOT do with hot coals?
(a) Roll on them.
(b) Walk on them.
(c) Cook over them.
(d) Eat them.

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

4. Who chides Dr. Van Heerden for wanting to send Nhamo away?
(a) Dr. Masuku.
(b) Baba Joseph.
(c) Nhamo.
(d) Dr. Ringer.

5. What is Nhamo's father's surname?
(a) Jongwut.
(b) Jonga.
(c) Jongwe.
(d) Jongkaw.

6. Why is Nhamo's hair shaved off after she attacks Van Heerdon?
(a) It is part of her repentance.
(b) She is being punished.
(c) They want to do a head scan.
(d) Demons get tangled in hair.

7. Why does the person Nhamo talks to at her family's house accept her?
(a) She is pretty.
(b) She looks like his first wife.
(c) She has lived an amazing life.
(d) She is a person in need.

8. What does the roar of the leopard remind Nhamo of?
(a) The carcass she ate.
(b) The day her mother died.
(c) The totem animal of her father.
(d) The urgency of her departure.

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

10. Why does Dr. Masuku want to send Nhamo to the city?
(a) To go to school.
(b) To heal from her illness.
(c) To get out of the way.
(d) To find her father.

11. What kind of tree does Nhamo find in a cave?
(a) Lucky Bean.
(b) Banana.
(c) Mulberry.
(d) Fig.

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

13. What do the people in the village tell Nhamo to avoid on her journey?
(a) Angering the leopard.
(b) Talking to spirits.
(c) Speaking her native language.
(d) The border patrol.

14. In what form do the njuzu come?
(a) Wind.
(b) Waves.
(c) Small beetles.
(d) Snakes.

15. What is Efifi?
(a) A church.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A college.
(d) A science research center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nhamo think when she looks in the mirror at the hospital?

2. What signals the beginning of the rainy season?

3. Where does Baba Joseph try to heal Nhamo?

4. Why is Nhamo not allowed to stay overnight in the village?

5. How does Nhamo feel when Dr. Masuku wants to send her to the city?

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