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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who shot the woman with an arrow who was charged with lightning in Chapter 7?
(a) Kwesi.
(b) Kudoda.
(c) Fumeli.
(d) Zareba.

3. How does Tracker describe the Prince's daughter when he last saw her in her window in Chapter 6?
(a) Her head a white sphere.
(b) Her hair on fire.
(c) Her neck, a broken wing.
(d) Her head a black stump.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. Who are the people that live above the Gangatom?
(a) The Yumboes.
(b) The Omoluzu.
(c) The Oba Olushere.
(d) The Luala Luala.

9. 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.

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

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

12. How did Giraffe Boy come to live with the woman in the woods?
(a) She saved him from a river.
(b) She saved him from a lion.
(c) She saved him from a witch.
(d) She saved him from Leopard.

13. Who are the enemies of the Ku across the river?
(a) The Luala Luala.
(b) The Makala.
(c) The Gangatom.
(d) The Oba Olushere.

14. 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) 20 moons.
(b) 70 moons.
(c) 40 moons.
(d) 100 moons.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of eye did Leopard say Tracker had in replacement of his own in Chapter 6?

3. What are the "roof walkers, night demons" (25) called that the King summons in Tracker's story in Chapter 1?

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

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

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