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

Multiple Choice 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).
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Allusion.

2. How many people has the slaver commissioned to find his son (when he first goes missing) in Chapter 6?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

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

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

5. What is the name of the woman who keeps the children in the forest?
(a) Sangoma.
(b) Abarra.
(c) Zareba.
(d) Basha.

6. Who was the eldest son of King Kwash Liongo?
(a) Prince Kwesi.
(b) Prince Kudoda.
(c) Prince Zareba.
(d) Prince Moki.

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

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

9. In the first search for the boy, how many moons passed before he was found, according to the written witness narrative in Chapter 6?
(a) 14.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 2.

10. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "I am just a man who some have called" what (12)?
(a) "A beast."
(b) "A wolf."
(c) "A monster."
(d) "A leopard."

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

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

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

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

15. Who was Kwash Dara's father?
(a) Kwesi.
(b) Kwash Netu.
(c) Kudoda.
(d) Oba Olushere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Tracker use to refer to "a buyer of boys" in Chapter 4?

2. To whom do Leopard and Tracker take the remaining mingi in Chapter 5?

3. What did Tracker's uncle tell him about his father in Chapter 2?

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

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

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