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

2. How many years after the boy from Malakal was retrieved was he lost again, according to the witness narrative in Chapter 6?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

3. What animals have emerged to attack the mingi in Chapter 5?
(a) Rhinos.
(b) Hyenas.
(c) Tigers.
(d) Lions.

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

5. What are the good fairies of the leaves called that Kava speaks to in Chapter 3?
(a) Basha.
(b) Mingi.
(c) Oba Olushere.
(d) Yumboes.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what game did Tracker's father kill a man?

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

3. What are all of the children called in the enchanted forest who have been saved by the Leopard-man?

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

5. Tracker states in Chapter 7 that Malakal produces nothing but what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What foreshadowing is established in the opening lines of the novel? Why is this important?

2. How did Tracker's uncle explain the reasoning behind male and female circumcision?

3. Why did Tracker's uncle say that he could not participate in the Zareba?

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

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

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

7. Where did Tracker meet Leopard? What were his first impressions of him?

8. How is Sogolon's appearance described in Chapter 8?

9. How did Tracker meet Nyka?

10. Who is Sangoma and how is she described?

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