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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. Who does Musuku want Nhamo to contact after her ceremony with Baba Joseph?
(a) Her family.
(b) A school.
(c) Her father.
(d) An orphanage.

2. What signals the beginning of the rainy season?
(a) Warm breezes.
(b) Thunder.
(c) Budding trees.
(d) Green grass.

3. About what does Nhamo tell Baba Joseph?
(a) Long Teats.
(b) Sacrificing cows.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her journey.

4. What are the people at Efifi trying to kill?
(a) Flies.
(b) Baboons.
(c) Hornets.
(d) Cancer.

5. Who does the woman in the margarine ad look like?
(a) Musuku.
(b) Nhamo's grandmother.
(c) Nhamo.
(d) Edina.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Nhamo's hair shaved off after she attacks Van Heerdon?

3. With what do the baboons in Nhamo's story fill a goat skin?

4. What was Nhamo's father's totem animal?

5. What does Musuku teach Nhamo to wear?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kinds of civilized things does Nhamo learn while she is at Efifi?

3. What happens in Nhamo's story about the farmer and the baboons?

4. What story does Nhamo tell Baba Joseph, and how does he respond to this?

5. What does Nhamo hear about her village in a letter, and how does this make her feel?

6. Why did Nhamo take such a strong liking to Dr. Masuku?

7. What does Nhamo do when she sees the first signs of the rainy season, and why?

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

9. Who takes Nhamo to meet her family, and how does she feel when she gets there?

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

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