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

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

3. 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) Bury the child.
(c) Kill the buffalo.
(d) Kill Tracker's uncle.

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

5. What did the Kalindar Prince say that the bandits wanted for ransom for his daughter in Chapter 6?
(a) Gold, in the weight of 10 and 7 horses.
(b) Gold, in the weight of 20 and 7 horses.
(c) Silver, in the weight of 10 and 7 horses.
(d) Silver, in the weight of 10 and 2 horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what inn did Tracker meet Leopard after they had not seen one another in years in Chapter 5?

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

3. What does Kava call the "master of charms and spells" (42) in the ritual in Chapter 2?

4. What does Kava say killed his family?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Leopard and Tracker do with the lightning woman in Chapter 7?

5. Who is Sangoma and how is she described?

6. How did Tracker become involved in the first quest for the boy?

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

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

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

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

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