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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what does the old man at the school ask Sophie to do to help them?
(a) Ask for help to get the boys there out of the school safely, or to help get antiretroviral drugs.
(b) Get some American money for them.
(c) Find some weapons for them to use to defend themselves.
(d) Send them some chemicals to treat and cleanse their water.

2. Which bonobo is killed by a kata-kata when Sophie tries to escape the sanctuary with them in Chapter 14?
(a) Banalia.
(b) Songololo.
(c) Otto.
(d) Anastasia.

3. What is one reason that Sophie trusts the old man she asks to take her and Otto up the Congo River on his boat?
(a) He has his son with him.
(b) He has a lot of food on the boat.
(c) He is singing a song she knows from childhood.
(d) He has other young girls on the boat and they look relaxed.

4. What does Sophie take with her from the U.N. station when she sneaks away with Otto?
(a) Rations and iodine.
(b) Helmets.
(c) Guns.
(d) Money.

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

6. Who helps Sophie in Chapter 17 when the crowd begins to close in on her?
(a) A girl about Sophie's age.
(b) An old man.
(c) A woman with three young daughters.
(d) An aunt of Sophie's who finds her in the crowd.

7. In Chapter 12, what is one of the fruits Sophie feeds herself and Otto?
(a) Apples.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Papayas.
(d) Bananas.

8. What does Hector tell Sophie he has especially for her in Chapter 17?
(a) A letter for her from Mama Evangeline.
(b) A letter for her from Patrice.
(c) A letter for her from her father.
(d) A letter for her from her mother.

9. In Chapter 16, what is the popular phrase for "word on the street?"
(a) Grapevine.
(b) Vox pop.
(c) Sidewalk radio.
(d) What they say.

10. Why does Sophie hope the other bonobos do not follow her and Otto out of the enclosure in Chapter 14?
(a) She knows the bonobos will only get sick if they leave the sanctuary.
(b) She knows she and Otto have a better chance of survival alone.
(c) She hopes they stay to greet her mother when her mother returns.
(d) She knows the kata-kata will notice if the bonobos are not in the sanctuary any longer.

11. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie anticipate will be her hardest challenge?
(a) Finding clean water.
(b) Getting a message to her father.
(c) Getting out of the Kinshasa area.
(d) Getting a message to her mother.

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

13. In Chapter 12, how does Sophie get an idea for the hierarchy in the bonobo group?
(a) She watches which bonobos give in grooming, and which ones receive.
(b) She watches who has the most food.
(c) She watches how they make their nests.
(d) She watches how they partner up for sex.

14. In Chapter 18, where is Sophie headed after leaving the U.N. outpost near the capital?
(a) Mbandaka, and then to her mother's release site.
(b) Miami.
(c) Rwanda.
(d) South Africa.

15. In Chapter 12, what awakens Sophie with a start from her sleep?
(a) Her falling out of her nest.
(b) The calls of lions.
(c) Otto's cries of pain.
(d) The sound of gunshots.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what does Sophie noticing the bonobos doing that is very much out of the ordinary?

2. What question does Hector, the U.N. guard, ask Sophie twice in Chapter 17?

3. In Chapter 12, what does Otto develop that worries Sophie?

4. When Sophie goes looking for the two young bonobos, what does she find?

5. What does Sophie give to the people from the crowd at the airport who help her reach the U.N.?

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