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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Leopard-man go back to do while Tracker and Kava wait in the bush in Chapter 3?
(a) Kill the snake.
(b) Kill the buffalo.
(c) Kill Tracker's uncle.
(d) Bury the child.

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

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

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

5. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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?
(a) 2 missing fingers.
(b) A shaved head.
(c) A missing hand.
(d) A missing foot.

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

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

15. What is the name of the tall woman who was with the slaver in his meeting with Tracker and Leopard in Chapter 8?
(a) Zareba.
(b) Sogolon.
(c) Kudoda.
(d) Nsaka Ne Vampi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long did the slaver give Tracker to decide whether to join the mission to look for the boy in Chapter 7?

3. Who are the enemies of the Ku across the river?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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