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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 head a white sphere.
(d) Her neck, a broken wing.

2. Where did Tracker move after leaving the capital city of the North in Chapter 5?
(a) Kongor.
(b) Dolingo.
(c) Malakal.
(d) Mitu.

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

4. What does Tracker's uncle tell him it is too late for him to have done?
(a) Tribal branding.
(b) Tribal tattooing.
(c) Circumcision.
(d) Rite of marriage.

5. What did Leopard say his father had been doing when he found him on an island in the middle of the sea in Chapter 6?
(a) Working as an executioner.
(b) Working as a slave trader.
(c) Working as a bricklayer.
(d) Working as a blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the second search for the boy from Malakal last, according to the witness narrative in Chapter 6?

2. What did the slaver offer to Tracker to drink in their meeting in Chapter 7?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "I am just a man who some have called" what (12)?

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

5. Where did the slaver entrust the child to a housekeeper before he was kidnapped?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tracker learn about his father while in Ku?

2. What is a frame narrative and how does this term apply to Black Leopard, Red Wolf?

3. What is "Zareba" and how is it described?

4. When and where was the boy stolen from according to the slaver in Chapter 8?

5. What did Tracker observe at the ritual with the newly born "men and women" with Kava in Chapter 1? Why did they run away?

6. Why did Tracker go to Monono? What did he retrieve there?

7. What is the Itaki and how is it described?

8. What did Tracker, Leopard, and Kava discover when they returned to Sangoma's after killing Asanbosam?

9. What are the Omoluzu? How are they described?

10. Who set up the search party for the boy? How many comprised the search party?

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