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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. In Chapter 9, what does Sophie realize she needs to do to be able to eat?
(a) Steal some food from the village.
(b) Kill an animal for meat.
(c) Get her black duffel bag that she dropped the day before back.
(d) Get back into the sanctuary.

2. Which bonobo was the first bonobo Sophie's mother had ever met?
(a) Songololo.
(b) Banalia.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Alexia.

3. Which mama at the sanctuary is the kindest towards Sophie?
(a) Mama Roberta.
(b) Mama Firenze.
(c) Mama Evangline.
(d) Mama Brunelle.

4. Why did the other bonobos attack Pweto?
(a) He had taken all the bonobos' food.
(b) He had accidentally killed one of their babies while playing with it.
(c) He had attacked other bonobos first.
(d) He had pushed his games with them too far.

5. About how many people live in Kinshasa?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sophie finally get Otto to drink in Chapter 3?

2. What does the term "white weapons" refer to?

3. What is one of the problems with treating animals for dehydration at the sanctuary?

4. In Chapter 8, what does Sophie think is one reason the adult bonobos had not attacked her?

5. What kind of sanctuary does Sophie's mother run in the DRC?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what does Sophie do after she jumps out of the U.N. transport van?

2. What was the only nice thing Sophie's fellow American students had ever said to her in her school days there?

3. What does Sophie's mother tell her about the reason the baby bonobo is missing fingers in Chapter 2?

4. In Chapter 5, what does Sophie say about her parents' marriage and why it fell apart?

5. In Chapter 9, what does Sophie realizes she is going to need to get in order to survive?

6. Why does Songololo look to Sophie for refuge sometimes?

7. Why does Sophie explain she finds it fitting that in one of the Congo's languages, Lingala, yesterday and tomorrow are the same word?

8. In Chapter 6, when does Sophie begin to realize what trouble she and everyone at the sanctuary might be in?

9. In Chapter 6, how does Sophie feel about the fact that she is set to be rescued from the chaos because she is an American citizen?

10. In Chapter 4, what does the sanctuary's chef, Emile, do that touches Sophie?

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