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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 shot.
(c) He had him castrated.
(d) He had him beheaded.

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) Allusion.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Metaphor.

3. What did Kava do to make the black leopard run off in Chapter 3?
(a) He slapped it.
(b) He shot an arrow at it.
(c) He threw water on it.
(d) He whistled at it.

4. Tracker states in Chapter 7 that Malakal produces nothing but what?
(a) Gold.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Silver.
(d) Slaves.

5. At what inn did Tracker meet Leopard after they had not seen one another in years in Chapter 5?
(a) Luala Luala Inn.
(b) Fasisi Inn.
(c) Kulikulo Inn.
(d) Abarra Inn.

6. 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 birds.
(c) Large snakes.
(d) Large bats.

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

8. What did Kava do to make the hippopotamus slink away in Chapter 3?
(a) He slapped it.
(b) He hissed at it.
(c) He kicked it.
(d) He whistled at it.

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

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

11. What does the Leopard wrap Asanbosam's head in before putting it in the sack in Chapter 5?
(a) A child's blanket.
(b) Sukusuku leaves.
(c) Bawo leaves.
(d) Zareba leaves.

12. How did the missing boy's parents die, according to the slaver in Chapter 8?
(a) From drowning.
(b) From river sickness.
(c) From a tiger attack.
(d) From night sickness.

13. 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 little girl.
(d) A tiger.

14. What did the slaver offer to Tracker to drink in their meeting in Chapter 7?
(a) Abarra Beer.
(b) Kudoda beer.
(c) Palm wine.
(d) Masuku beer.

15. What do you eat during the rights of manhood ritual described by Tracker in Chapter 2?
(a) Mingi.
(b) Oba Olushere.
(c) Abarra.
(d) Durra porridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who keeps the children in the forest?

2. What is the name of the tall woman who was with the slaver in his meeting with Tracker and Leopard in Chapter 8?

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

4. What are giants of the mountain lands called in the novel?

5. How does Tracker describe the Prince's daughter when he last saw her in her window in Chapter 6?

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