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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the capital city of the North where Tracker found many jobs working to track people, according to the narrative in Chapter 5?

2. What did the slaver offer to Tracker to drink in their meeting in Chapter 7?

3. Who shot the woman with an arrow who was charged with lightning in Chapter 7?

4. To whom do Leopard and Tracker take the remaining mingi in Chapter 5?

5. What does Kava say killed his family?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is Sogolon's appearance described in Chapter 8?

7. Where did Tracker meet Leopard? What were his first impressions of him?

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. How did Tracker meet Nyka?

10. How did Tracker first find his way to Ku? Who helped him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of political unrest in Black Leopard, Red Wolf. What has led to the political unrest between the different kingdoms that are described in the story? How does this political unrest evolve? How does the political unrest relate to Tracker's quest?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of misogyny and the depictions of female characters in Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Is Tracker a misogynist character? Why or why not? Do you think that the author develops fully fleshed-out female characters in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the narrative style of Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Who is the primary narrator of the story? What is a frame device and how is this employed in the narrative? Is the narrative related in a linear or nonlinear fashion? How do these choices affect the reader?

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