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

2. What is the capital city of the North where Tracker found many jobs working to track people, according to the narrative in Chapter 5?
(a) Ku.
(b) Fasisi.
(c) Dolingo.
(d) Luala Luala.

3. How did Giraffe Boy come to live with the woman in the woods?
(a) She saved him from a lion.
(b) She saved him from Leopard.
(c) She saved him from a witch.
(d) She saved him from a river.

4. What word does Tracker use to refer to "a buyer of boys" in Chapter 4?
(a) Yumbo.
(b) Basha.
(c) Mingi.
(d) Zareba.

5. What are the "roof walkers, night demons" (25) called that the King summons in Tracker's story in Chapter 1?
(a) Bawo.
(b) Impundulu.
(c) Omoluzu.
(d) Ampe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tracker kill Kava?

2. What "wife's poison" (16) does Tracker describe being almost poisoned with by the merchant's wife in Chapter 1?

3. What does the Leopard-man go back to do while Tracker and Kava wait in the bush in Chapter 3?

4. Where did Tracker take up residence in the years between the first and second searches for the boy from Malakal, according to the witness narrative in Chapter 6?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Sangoma and how is she described?

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

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

6. Why did Tracker kill his uncle? What did he do with his uncle's head?

7. How did Tracker meet Nyka?

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

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

10. Who is Fumeli? What were Tracker's first impressions of him?

(see the answer keys)

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