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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 19, what does Wello tell Sophie he hated to do in Kinshasa?
(a) Sell his fish to the rebels.
(b) Buy provisions from the rebels.
(c) Leave his family.
(d) Kill a bonobo.

2. In Chapter 15, why does Sophie think Mushie does not build her a nest?
(a) Because Anastasia told Mushie not to build Sophie a nest.
(b) Because Mushie is lost in the jungle somewhere.
(c) Because Mushie is angry at Sophie.
(d) Because they are all confused and thrown by the chaos of the escape.

3. In Chapter 16, what does Otto start doing to the boys at the school that the boys think is funny?
(a) Pulling on their toes.
(b) Playing tricks on them.
(c) Feeding them.
(d) Grooming them.

4. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie think about her situation compared to that of the crowds at the airport?
(a) She needs to be able to offer them something so they will not hurt her.
(b) She is at a disadvantage because she is a U.S. citizen.
(c) She has less chance of getting help from the U.S. than they do.
(d) She has more to lose than they do.

5. Why does Sophie think people at the airport have dressed in fine clothes?
(a) She thinks they had nowhere else to store their clothes.
(b) She thinks they anticipate being at the palace.
(c) She thinks they must have thought it would increase their chances of getting on a plane.
(d) She thinks they think it will convince the U.N. soldiers they are well-educated.

6. What does Hector tell Sophie the U.N. did with the two young bonobos that were left there?
(a) Killed them.
(b) Let them free out back.
(c) Sold them to the people for food.
(d) Sent them to Sophie's mother's sanctuary.

7. In Chapter 15, who saves Sophie and the bonobos from a hunter?
(a) Sophie's mother.
(b) Pweto.
(c) Patrice.
(d) Clement.

8. What is Sophie's plan to try to lose the rest of the bonobos as she and Otto press on with their journey?
(a) To try to fight them all off physically herself.
(b) To cause a distraction.
(c) To give them sleeping pills.
(d) To gather so much food for them they will not leave the stockpile.

9. In Chapter 12, who makes a sleeping nest of branches and leaves for Sophie?
(a) Songololo.
(b) Banalia.
(c) Otto.
(d) Mushie.

10. In Chapter 16, what does the old man at the school give to Sophie when she and Otto eventually leave?
(a) A knife and a length of rope.
(b) Meat and soda.
(c) Garlic-roasted manioc and bottles of well water.
(d) Money and a gun.

11. In Chapter 16, what does the sign say that Sophie sees outside of the old colonial house she comes across?
(a) Help.
(b) SIDA.
(c) Toxic!
(d) Quarantine.

12. In Chapter 15, what does Sophie noticing the bonobos doing that is very much out of the ordinary?
(a) Following her as she makes her way onward to find her mother.
(b) Teasing each other.
(c) Sharing their food with each other.
(d) Fighting with each other.

13. What is the man's name who takes Sophie up the Congo River on his boat?
(a) Frederico.
(b) Pierre.
(c) Wello.
(d) Mandolo.

14. In Chapter 18, what does the man who Sophie asks to take her up the Congo River ask her for as payment?
(a) Water.
(b) Gold.
(c) Food.
(d) Otto.

15. What does the first U.N. guard tell Sophie when she finally reaches the U.N. station in Chapter 17?
(a) She missed her once chance to get out weeks earlier, and now she will never be able to leave.
(b) They can not help her because she is not Congolese.
(c) They can not help anyone until the Refugee Commission gets there.
(d) They can not help her because she is white.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what is one of the fruits Sophie feeds herself and Otto?

2. How does Sophie realize the electrified fence is off in Chapter 12?

3. Which of the following is included in the U.N. ration packet Sophie took?

4. In Chapter 16, what valuable information does Sophie give to the old man who runs that school that will likely aid his and the boys' survival?

5. Who is the oldest bonobo?

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