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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. At the end of the story, what does Hope give up trying to find?
(a) Peace.
(b) Honor.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Dignity.

2. Who apologizes for being a coward?
(a) Hope.
(b) Vail.
(c) Clovis.
(d) Mallabar.

3. Which southern chimp does not return from an excursion after the death of Mr. Jeb?
(a) Lena.
(b) Rita-Lu.
(c) Muffin.
(d) Rita-Mae.

4. What is presented to Hope as the cause of the killed chimps?
(a) Poisoned berries.
(b) Lack of water.
(c) A deadly lizard.
(d) A dead leopard.

5. Who is found dead after a chimpanzee fight?
(a) Alda.
(b) Joao.
(c) Clovis.
(d) Muffin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did the guerrilla soldiers play?

2. Who ends the chimp wars?

3. At the end of the story, what does Hope say it is necessary to suspend?

4. Where does Hope live at the end of the story?

5. What do illnesses, nervous breakdowns and injuries show?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Hope, how is life like calculus?

2. Vail makes two sexual overtures to Hope in the novel. When do they occur and what is common about both occasions?

3. What discrepancies does Hope learn about Usman's past and how does she learn them?

4. What leads Hope to believe that Almicar and his soldiers are the only remaining members of the UNAMO force?

5. According to Hope, what are life's three important questions?

6. What are John's answers to life's three important questions?

7. How does Hope's discovery among the chimps show her that she and John are not so different? What is it that they have in common?

8. What, briefly, is the mathematical set John dreams of creating and where is he while he is tries to develop it?

9. What is Hope's relationship with Mallabar at the end of the novel?

10. In the end, what lesson does Hope say she's learned about life?

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