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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What name does Leopard say he took as a man in Chapter 6?
(a) Ampe.
(b) Kwesi.
(c) Kudoda.
(d) Oba Olushere.

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

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

6. What is the name of the creature that is said "comes to you like someone you know, with everything but a tongue" (34)?
(a) The Mingi.
(b) Oba Olushere.
(c) The makala.
(d) The Abarra.

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

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

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

10. What "wife's poison" (16) does Tracker describe being almost poisoned with by the merchant's wife in Chapter 1?
(a) Snake dung.
(b) Creek filge.
(c) Cobra spit.
(d) Bone dust.

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

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

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

14. By what name does the witchman in the hut call "the cool and gentle snake" in Chapter 2?
(a) The Mingi.
(b) The Abarra.
(c) The makala.
(d) Oba Olushere.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tracker say his back suffered beatings from at the hands of the guards after reading the witness report in Chapter 6?

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

3. What does the Leopard wrap Asanbosam's head in before putting it in the sack in Chapter 5?

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

5. Who was Kwash Dara's father?

(see the answer keys)

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