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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 did Kwash Dara have dumped on the banquet table during the feast celebrating his one year's reign in Chapter 17?
(a) Two heads.
(b) His son's body.
(c) Two hands.
(d) Two torsos.

2. Who carried the Leopard from the hut after he had been entranced by the bone dust in Chapter 10?
(a) Nsaka Ne Vampi.
(b) Sadogo.
(c) Ewele.
(d) The makala.

3. Who is described as the grass troll that sucks the life out of bodies, draining them to a husk, in Chapter 17?
(a) Eloko.
(b) Ewele.
(c) Kwesi.
(d) Fumeli.

4. What does Tracker say they eat in Kongor?
(a) Turkeys.
(b) Goat.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Crocodiles.

5. What is the name of the mountain seven days west of Fasisis and north of Juba?
(a) Ewele.
(b) Amadu Kasawura.
(c) Mantha.
(d) Dolingo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Sogolon say were the snake women in Chapter 16?

3. Where is Fumanguru's home said to be in Chapter 12?

4. Ekoiye led Tracker through a hatch to the roof of whom in Chapter 11?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are Kongori perceptions of magic different than those of the other settings in the novel?

3. Why was Tracker instructed not to sleep in the night in Chapter 16?

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

5. How did Mossi explain his reasoning for joining the tracking party in Chapter 16?

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

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

8. Where is Kongor and how is it described?

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

10. How does Sadogo feel about his violent past?

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