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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tracker's uncle say built and then left behind the house where his grandmother lives in Chapter 2?
(a) Large bats.
(b) Large birds.
(c) Large ants.
(d) Large snakes.

2. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1? "Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon" (12).
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Simile.

3. What does Tracker say is above us in the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Impundulu.
(b) A roof.
(c) The sky.
(d) A bat.

4. For how long had the King been dead that the Queen asked Tracker to find for her in Chapter 1?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 5 years.

5. For how long does Tracker say the collapsed tower has been collapsing in Chapter 8?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 200 years.
(d) 400 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the creature that is said "comes to you like someone you know, with everything but a tongue" (34)?

2. By what name does Tracker address his audience in the narrative?

3. How did Giraffe Boy come to live with the woman in the woods?

4. What did Tracker's uncle tell him about his father in Chapter 2?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "I am just a man who some have called" what (12)?

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