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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 Nhamo's father's surname?
(a) Jongwut.
(b) Jonga.
(c) Jongkaw.
(d) Jongwe.

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

3. Which of the following spirits does NOT come to Nhamo to speak with her at the end of the book?
(a) Proud Jongwe.
(b) Grandmother.
(c) Masvita.
(d) Mother.

4. Why do the baboons in Nhamo's play a prank on the farmer?
(a) The baboons want his hut.
(b) The farmer took their land.
(c) The baboons think he killed their leader.
(d) The farmer does not share his food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Efifi?

2. What news does a haze tell Nhamo one day at Efifi?

3. What does the farmer in Nhamo's story do to get back at the baboons?

4. What does the old man in the hospital do for Nhamo?

5. Who chides Dr. Van Heerden for wanting to send Nhamo away?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Nhamo have a hard time working on her boat when the dry season comes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are the people at Efifi doing?

10. Where is Nhamo's father?

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