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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 is the name used for he who "makes the costume... a knower of beauty" (398) for Bingingun?
(a) The bumbangi.
(b) The Abarra.
(c) The makala.
(d) The amewa.

2. What is the name of the quarter of Kongor in the southwest "with streets for administrators, scribes, and keepers of logs and records" (357)?
(a) The Nyembe quarter.
(b) The Nimbe quarter.
(c) The Gallunkobe/Matyube quarter.
(d) The Tarobe quarter.

3. Where did the Aesi tell Lissisolo she would be sent the following day after she learned her husband and children were dead in Chapter 17?
(a) To Dolingo.
(b) To the Gallunkobe/Matyube quarter.
(c) To the divine sisterhood.
(d) To Fasisi.

4. What is Sogolon said to be master of in Chapter 16?
(a) Dolingo.
(b) The lands to the west.
(c) The lands to the east.
(d) The ten and nine doors.

5. What kind of bird did Ekoiye have in his room in Chapter 11?
(a) A black pigeon.
(b) A white dove.
(c) A blue raven.
(d) A black starling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described in Chapter 10 as "the quiet one" that is "more vicious than his cousin" (328)?

2. What does Tracker say time is to all animals in Chapter 12?

3. What is the area of the northwest called in Kongor?

4. How many rooms does Tracker describe comprising the lord's house where the party arrived in Chapter 17?

5. Where was the blind woman to whom the boy was taken after the attack by the Omoluzu, according to Tracker's narrative in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mossi described? What were Tracker's first impressions of him?

2. How does Sadogo feel about his violent past?

3. Who is Lissisolo and how does this character play into the plot of the novel?

4. What is the Darklands and how is it described?

5. What are griots and why are they important in the story?

6. What is the creature called the Anjou and how did it attack the tracking party?

7. What did the tracking party discover about Fumanguru's writs in Chapter 15?

8. What is Impundulu? How is this creature described?

9. How is the buffalo described and why did it join the tracking party?

10. Who is Bunshi and what are Tracker's impressions of this character?

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