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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tracker kill Kava?
(a) He lit his house on fire.
(b) He cut out his heart.
(c) He stabbed him in the neck.
(d) He pushed him off a cliff.

2. 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?
(a) 40 moons.
(b) 100 moons.
(c) 70 moons.
(d) 20 moons.

3. How many cowries does Tracker describe his mother giving him when he left home in Chapter 1?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 20.

4. What did the slaver do to the black slave who had lain with the red slave in the end of Chapter 6?
(a) He had him beheaded.
(b) He had him castrated.
(c) He had him drowned.
(d) He had him shot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What "wife's poison" (16) does Tracker describe being almost poisoned with by the merchant's wife in Chapter 1?

2. For how long does the narrator say Kava and Leopard have been saving children in Chapter 4?

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

4. How many years after the boy from Malakal was retrieved was he lost again, according to the witness narrative in Chapter 6?

5. What name does Leopard say he took as a man in Chapter 6?

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