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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 do to comfort her cousin who gets teased?
(a) Sings a song.
(b) Tells a story.
(c) Plays a game.
(d) Makes some food.

2. Why does Baba Joseph think Nhamo attacked Heerdon?
(a) She hates him.
(b) She is possessed.
(c) She is having a mental breakdown.
(d) She is afraid of the dog.

3. What does Nhamo's mother tell her after she learns about the leopard on the island?
(a) To be careful.
(b) To protect herself.
(c) To not worry.
(d) To leave soon.

4. Who takes Nhamo to meet her family?
(a) Sister Gina.
(b) Sister Martha.
(c) Sister Mary.
(d) Sister Gladys.

5. Why does the person Nhamo talks to at her family's house accept her?
(a) She is a person in need.
(b) She has lived an amazing life.
(c) She looks like his first wife.
(d) She is pretty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nhamo do with the carcass she finds after leaving the cave?

2. Why is Nhamo so shocked about her doctor?

3. What does the nganga give Nhamo to prove her parentage?

4. What is Nhamo's father's surname?

5. In what form do the njuzu come?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of the staff at Efifi, who likes Nhamo the most of the staff, and why?

2. What does Nhamo realize when she sees the margarine advertisement again?

3. What are the people at Efifi doing?

4. What does Dr. Masuku say when Nhamo moves in with her father's family?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What story does Nhamo tell Clever to cheer him up?

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