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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. What does Sophie's mother tell the man who brought two baby bonobos to the sanctuary in Chapter 4?
(a) That he needs to make sure he takes care of the animals all by himself.
(b) That he is not allowed to sell the animals.
(c) That she will buy the animals from him.
(d) That he can not eat the animals' meat because she can tell they are sick.

2. What is the title of Part II of the book?
(a) War Comes to the Capital.
(b) A City in Ruins.
(c) The Rules of the Bonobos.
(d) A Country No More.

3. In Chapter 7, where does Sophie go to hide from the U.N. workers and the sanctuary staff?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The nursery.
(c) The infirmary.
(d) The electrified enclosure.

4. In Chapter 11, what food does Sophie have that she shares with the bonobos?
(a) Rice.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Granola bars.

5. In Chapter 3, which bonobo bites and kicks Sophie?
(a) Ikwa.
(b) Anastasia.
(c) Mushie.
(d) Songololo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sophie get in and out of the electrified fence in Chapter 10?

2. In Chapter 6, how is Sophie planning to get to the airport safely?

3. In Chapter 5, what is Sophie's mother and other sanctuary workers preparing to do?

4. What word do people frequently use to refer to Sophie in the DRC?

5. What does Clement tell Sophie and the smuggler is the problem with the sale the smuggler tries to make to Sophie in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Sophie hear shortly after she enters the bonobo enclosure that makes her blood run cold?

2. In Chapter 6, why is the bonobo Pweto quarantined from the other animals?

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

4. Why do the U.N. staff refuse to let Sophie take Otto with her on her flight out of the Congo?

5. In Chapter 1, what does Clement tell Sophie about how her mother will react when she finds out Sophie bought the bonobo?

6. What are the "white weapons" the U.N. warns many people are being killed with?

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 11, what is one of the reasons Sophie pays close attention to what the bonobos eat as they forage?

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