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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. Where does Nhamo get the clay she uses to repair her boat?
(a) A termite hill.
(b) The river banks.
(c) A baboon nest.
(d) A beaver dam.

2. How does Nhamo harden her wood spears?
(a) She burns them.
(b) She whittles them.
(c) She wets them.
(d) She lines them with rocks.

3. Where does Nhamo land after drifting unanchored all night?
(a) A sand bar.
(b) A strange lake.
(c) The beach.
(d) An island.

4. Whom does Nhamo dream about going over a cliff?
(a) Chipo.
(b) Crocodile Guts.
(c) Masvita.
(d) Grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Nhamo compare the trading post?

3. In what lake is the island?

4. What ruins Nhamo's traps?

5. Why does Ruva stop eating?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nhamo feel when the hippos are gone, and why?

2. What story does Nhamo's grandmother tell her at the beginning of the book?

3. What did Nhamo's grandmother do when her daughter was eaten by a leopard, and why is this so touching to Nhamo?

4. What does Grandmother reveal about Nhamo's father at the trading post?

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

6. What does a baby baboon do to prove that Nhamo has been accepted into the tribe, and how does Nhamo respond to this?

7. Why does Grandmother say Chipo never liked Nhamo?

8. What does Nhamo do to get the deformed baboon off the small island?

9. What does Nhamo decide to hunt, and why?

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

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