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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 – 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Itaki appear as when Tracker and the King passed back to the world of the living?
(a) An old crone.
(b) A snake.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A little girl.

2. What does Tracker's uncle tell him it is too late for him to have done?
(a) Tribal tattooing.
(b) Tribal branding.
(c) Circumcision.
(d) Rite of marriage.

3. By what name does the witchman in the hut call "the cool and gentle snake" in Chapter 2?
(a) The Abarra.
(b) The Mingi.
(c) The makala.
(d) Oba Olushere.

4. What is "the official and provider of food. Also stealer" (42) called in Chapter 2?
(a) The bumbangi.
(b) Oba Olushere.
(c) The Yumbo.
(d) The makala.

5. What does the Leopard-man go back to do while Tracker and Kava wait in the bush in Chapter 3?
(a) Kill the buffalo.
(b) Kill Tracker's uncle.
(c) Kill the snake.
(d) Bury the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tracker's father demand to drink from his wife, then abusing her, in Chapter 1?

2. What tree does the witchman take Tracker to in Chapter 2?

3. When Tracker encountered the old crone on his way to Monono, she told him that if she lay with a man, she lives without dying for how long?

4. What are the good fairies of the leaves called that Kava speaks to in Chapter 3?

5. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1? "Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon" (12).

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