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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. How does Nhamo travel against the current?
(a) She lets the wind blow her.
(b) She zigzags.
(c) She turns the boat in wide circles.
(d) She paddles hard when the current is weak.

2. What is a nganga?
(a) A priest.
(b) A leader.
(c) A healer.
(d) A sorcerer.

3. Why is Nhamo so afraid when she dreams about Crocodile Guts?
(a) He is dead.
(b) She took his boat.
(c) He was always mean to her.
(d) She lied to him.

4. What is the name of Nhamo's favorite baboon baby?
(a) Tag.
(b) Tick.
(c) Tom.
(d) Tim.

5. What do the baboons refuse to do for the deformed baboon?
(a) Hunt for him.
(b) Groom him.
(c) Protect him.
(d) Sleep near him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the boy in Nhamo's story making a rope?

2. How does Nhamo harden her wood spears?

3. What is the name of Masvita's aunt in the other village?

4. Who tells Nhamo to start working on her boat?

5. What does Nhamo do to get Ruva to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nhamo figure out a better way to hollow out her boat?

2. How does Grandmother want Nhamo to escape?

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

4. What does Nhamo do when she finds all the food on the big island?

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

6. What happens when Nhamo procrastinates checking her animal traps?

7. What does Nhamo do in the forest when she is supposed to be collecting firewood?

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

9. Why does Grandmother say Chipo never liked Nhamo?

10. What does Nhamo dream about after being stung?

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