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

2. Who is the man who commissioned trackers to find his son?
(a) Kwash Netu.
(b) Amadu Kasawura.
(c) Kwesi.
(d) Kudoda.

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

4. 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) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 14.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Itaki appear as when Tracker and the King passed back to the world of the living?

2. For how long does Tracker say the collapsed tower has been collapsing in Chapter 8?

3. How many people has the slaver commissioned to find his son (when he first goes missing) in Chapter 6?

4. What does Tracker's uncle tell him it is too late for him to have done?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Tracker meet Nyka?

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

6. How is Sadogo's appearance described when he first appears in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

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