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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Nhamo yell at the big island for?
(a) Being too big.
(b) Not being Zimbabwe.
(c) Keeping her from continuing her journey.
(d) Being too beautiful.

5. What starts while Nhamo is fighting against the current?
(a) The bird migration.
(b) The fall rains.
(c) Her monthly bleeding.
(d) Her panic attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Nhamo compare the trading post?

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

3. What useful item does Nhamo find in the hut on the island?

4. What ruins Nhamo's traps?

5. To what kind of tree does Nhamo tie her boat when she gets to the big island?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Grandmother say Chipo never liked Nhamo?

2. What makes Nhamo upset as the family is travelling to the trading post, and how is this resolved?

3. What happens to Nhamo while she is fighting against the current, and what does this mean to her?

4. What does Nhamo think her dream about Long Teats was trying to tell her?

5. What does Nhamo do to calm her fears while she waits for the hippos to leave?

6. What happens when Nhamo's food rations run out?

7. What does Nhamo dream about after being stung?

8. What is the story that Nhamo tells herself while waiting for her boat to be repaired?

9. What kinds of things occupy Nhamo's time when she is first settling on the island?

10. What does Grandmother tell Nhamo about her mother the day Masvita enters womanhood?

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