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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 does Nhamo think when she looks in the mirror at the hospital?
(a) She is disgusted.
(b) She is happy.
(c) She is disbelieving.
(d) She is surprised.

2. To whom does Nhamo tell her story at her family's house?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) The servant.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) A nganga.

3. How does Nhamo feel when Dr. Masuku wants to send her to the city?
(a) Confused.
(b) Angry.
(c) Scared.
(d) Happy.

4. What does Nhamo do when she finds a goat underground?
(a) Lay down with it.
(b) Drinks some milk.
(c) Kills and eats it.
(d) Chases it away.

5. What is Nhamo's mother doing in her dream after she sees the goat underground?
(a) Driving.
(b) Singing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baba Joseph think Nhamo attacked Heerdon?

2. Why does Dr. Van Heerden interrupt Baba Joseph when he is trying to cure Nhamo?

3. What does Nhamo drink at Efifi that she loves more than anything else there?

4. What two things does Nhamo try to be while at Efifi?

5. Why does Nhamo attack Dr. Van Heerden when he comes back from the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Baba Joseph do to Nhamo's panga, and how does Nhamo feel about this?

2. Where is Nhamo's father?

3. What does Nhamo watch a wasp do, and what does she think of this?

4. What happens when Dr. Van Heerden's dog comes out of his truck?

5. Why does Baba Joseph think Nhamo attacked Van Heerden, and what does he do about it?

6. What does Nhamo do just after her jar of possessions is ruined?

7. What does a nurse let Nhamo do that she thinks is miraculous?

8. How is Nhamo protected when she is chased after being seen by the white family, and how does she feel about this?

9. Why does the nganga think the leopard appeared to Nhamo?

10. What does Nhamo hear in a haze one day, and how does this affect her?

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