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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. What is the name of the trader's wife?
(a) Rhonda.
(b) Rita.
(c) Rosa.
(d) Rose.

2. What does Nhamo want to do on the tiny island off of the big island?
(a) Make a fire pit.
(b) Plant her garden.
(c) Build a house.
(d) Smoke meat.

3. Why is the boy in Nhamo's story making a rope?
(a) To tie up his future wife.
(b) To climb to the sky.
(c) To wrap the world.
(d) To pull his grandmother's farm closer.

4. What does Long Teats eat?
(a) Finger nails.
(b) Children.
(c) Baby's blood.
(d) Dead humans.

5. In a dream, what does Crocodile Guts remind Nhamo to do?
(a) Have faith in her abilities.
(b) Listen to the njuzu.
(c) Pack food for her journey.
(d) Thank the ancestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Nhamo fight the current before she sees land?

2. What does Chipo do in the days before Nhamo's wedding?

3. What does Nhamo try to imitate while learning to swim?

4. What does Nhamo make out of the bark of the tree?

5. What did Princess Senwa do when her husband betrayed her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Grandmother say Chipo never liked Nhamo?

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

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

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

5. What happens when the baboons on the island see Nhamo?

6. What does Nhamo dream about after she sees the electric light?

7. What does Nhamo dream about after being stung?

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

9. What does the muvuki determine will be done to make payment for the dead man?

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

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