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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 name of the woman who arose from a liquid puddle in Chapter 8?

2. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1? "Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon" (12).

3. What did Kava do to make the hippopotamus slink away in Chapter 3?

4. For how long had the King been dead that the Queen asked Tracker to find for her in Chapter 1?

5. What are all of the children called in the enchanted forest who have been saved by the Leopard-man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who set up the search party for the boy? How many comprised the search party?

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

5. How is Sadogo's appearance described when he first appears in Chapter 8?

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

7. Why did Tracker kill his uncle? What did he do with his uncle's head?

8. How did Tracker meet Nyka?

9. What did Tracker learn about his father while in Ku?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of Leopard in Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Where and how does Tracker meet Leopard? How would you characterize their relationship? How does that relationship evolve in the course of the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the settings of Juba and Ku in Black Leopard, Red Wolf. What is Tracker's connection to each of these settings? How do they differ in terms of culture and belief systems? How are they different in population and economy?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Tracker as the protagonist of Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Is Tracker an archetypal hero or antihero? What are Tracker's primary motivations throughout the narrative? How does Tracker's character evolve in the course of the story?

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