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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tracker accuse of trying to cook the Inquisitor in Chapter 6?
(a) His son.
(b) His mother.
(c) His 10-year-old wife.
(d) His eldest sister.

2. Where did the slaver entrust the child to a housekeeper before he was kidnapped?
(a) Fasisi.
(b) Luala Luala.
(c) Kongor.
(d) Dolingo.

3. How long did the second search for the boy from Malakal last, according to the witness narrative in Chapter 6?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 year.

4. What are giants of the mountain lands called in the novel?
(a) Omoluzu.
(b) Bawo.
(c) Ogos.
(d) Mingi.

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

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

7. What word does Tracker use to refer to "a buyer of boys" in Chapter 4?
(a) Mingi.
(b) Yumbo.
(c) Basha.
(d) Zareba.

8. 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) 100 moons.
(b) 70 moons.
(c) 40 moons.
(d) 20 moons.

9. 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 shot.
(b) He had him beheaded.
(c) He had him drowned.
(d) He had him castrated.

10. To whom do Leopard and Tracker take the remaining mingi in Chapter 5?
(a) To the Gangatom.
(b) To the Zareba.
(c) To the Oba Olushere.
(d) To the Ku.

11. What are the rights of manhood called by the villagers that take Tracker in Chapter 2?
(a) The Abarra.
(b) The Mingi.
(c) Oba Olushere.
(d) The Zareba.

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

13. By what name does Tracker address his audience in the narrative?
(a) Leopard.
(b) Inquisitor.
(c) Queen.
(d) Reader.

14. What animal did Tracker watch Leopard kill on the 28th night away from the Ku in Chapter 4?
(a) A giraffe.
(b) A mermaid.
(c) An antelope.
(d) A goat.

15. How long did the slaver give Tracker to decide whether to join the mission to look for the boy in Chapter 7?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who shot the woman with an arrow who was charged with lightning in Chapter 7?

3. How many cowries does Tracker describe his mother giving him when he left home in Chapter 1?

4. What animals have emerged to attack the mingi in Chapter 5?

5. Who was the eldest son of King Kwash Liongo?

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