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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. 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 Fasisi.
(c) To the Gallunkobe/Matyube quarter.
(d) To the divine sisterhood.

2. Where did Sogolon tell Lissisolo to send her son for protection after he was born to the second Prince she married?
(a) Ku.
(b) Kwesi.
(c) Mweru.
(d) Fasisi.

3. What is the quarter of Kongor called that housed "free people and slaves both laboring for masters" (357)?
(a) The Nimbe quarter.
(b) The Tarobe quarter.
(c) The Gallunkobe/Matyube quarter.
(d) The Nyembe quarter.

4. In order for a witch to summon Omoluzu, what must be thrown against the ceiling, according to Mossi in Chapter 16?
(a) The firstborn child of a woman.
(b) Bone dust.
(c) The excrement of woman or man.
(d) The blood of woman or man.

5. 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 Nimbe quarter.
(b) The Tarobe quarter.
(c) The Nyembe quarter.
(d) The Gallunkobe/Matyube quarter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the glyphs on the writs written in?

2. What is the name used for he who "makes the costume... a knower of beauty" (398) for Bingingun?

3. Who runs the House of Pleasurable Goods and Services that Tracker visited in Chapter 11?

4. How old is an Ogo when "the Ogo becomes the monster the gods fated him to become" (416)?

5. What did Sadogo say Impundulu once tried to do to him in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Sasabonsam? Why is this character important in the novel?

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

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

4. What forced the tracking party to flee the Great Hall of Records in Chapter 15?

5. What happened to the children in Dolingo?

6. Where is Kongor and how is it described?

7. Why did Tracker and the party associate the missing boy with the Omoluzu?

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

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

10. What is significant about the boy's trail going hot and cold in Tracker's scent?

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