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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kava say killed his family?
(a) Mingi.
(b) Omoluzu.
(c) Night sickness.
(d) River sickness.

2. What did the Kalindar Prince say that the bandits wanted for ransom for his daughter in Chapter 6?
(a) Gold, in the weight of 10 and 7 horses.
(b) Silver, in the weight of 10 and 7 horses.
(c) Gold, in the weight of 20 and 7 horses.
(d) Silver, in the weight of 10 and 2 horses.

3. What are all of the children called in the enchanted forest who have been saved by the Leopard-man?
(a) Yumboes.
(b) Mingi.
(c) Basha.
(d) Ampe.

4. How often did Tracker's uncle tell him his people celebrate death and rebirth in Chapter 2?
(a) Every 10 times the earth flies around the sun.
(b) Every 60 times the earth flies around the sun.
(c) Every 100 times the earth flies around the sun.
(d) Every 30 times the earth flies around the sun.

5. What did Tracker's father demand to drink from his wife, then abusing her, in Chapter 1?
(a) Spring water.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Mulla beer.
(d) Palm wine.

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

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

8. What does Kava call the "master of charms and spells" (42) in the ritual in Chapter 2?
(a) The Yumbo.
(b) Oba Olushere.
(c) The bumbangi.
(d) The makala.

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

10. What tree does the witchman take Tracker to in Chapter 2?
(a) The monkeybread tree.
(b) The saugage tree.
(c) The sorghum tree.
(d) The palm tree.

11. What does Tracker say his back suffered beatings from at the hands of the guards after reading the witness report in Chapter 6?
(a) Metal chains.
(b) Soap bars.
(c) Wood canes.
(d) Yam sacks.

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

13. What are the "roof walkers, night demons" (25) called that the King summons in Tracker's story in Chapter 1?
(a) Bawo.
(b) Omoluzu.
(c) Impundulu.
(d) Ampe.

14. What did Leopard say his father had been doing when he found him on an island in the middle of the sea in Chapter 6?
(a) Working as a blacksmith.
(b) Working as an executioner.
(c) Working as a bricklayer.
(d) Working as a slave trader.

15. What did Tracker's uncle tell him about his father in Chapter 2?
(a) His father is his grandfather.
(b) His father is his brother.
(c) His father is wanted for murder.
(d) His father is his uncle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the capital city of the North where Tracker found many jobs working to track people, according to the narrative in Chapter 5?

3. Where did the slaver entrust the child to a housekeeper before he was kidnapped?

4. What is the name of the woman who arose from a liquid puddle in Chapter 8?

5. What did Tracker send the Prince in Kalindar's first servant back with, as he had foul manners, according to the narrative in Chapter 6?

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