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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 8, why does Sophie decide against leaving the enclosure with Otto at night?
(a) Otto gets very ill and she does not feel they can travel yet.
(b) She hears gunshots again and loses her nerve.
(c) She sees more people on the road and she does not want to meet them.
(d) It is too dark to see anything and she is too afraid to risk it.

2. What was the country that is currently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo formerly known as?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Malawi.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Mali.

3. What does the term "white weapons" refer to?
(a) Weapons that were imported from majority-white countries.
(b) Weapons that are the color white.
(c) Weapons that kill silently like machetes, clubs, and knives.
(d) Weapons that were devised by white people.

4. In Chapter 6, what do the strangers who come to the sanctuary ask Sophie that unsettles her?
(a) If there is a church nearby.
(b) How old she is.
(c) If there is a school nearby.
(d) If there are any men in the sanctuary.

5. In Chapter 7, why does Sophie jump out of the U.N. van?
(a) Her mother has just phoned and Sophie wants to speak to her.
(b) Her father has just phoned and told her to stay in the DRC.
(c) Otto is running after her and she is afraid he might be run over.
(d) Patrice is running after her with her passport.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which bonobo does Sophie rescue in Chapter 10 from the rebels, who have captured it?

3. Who is the queen bonobo of the enclosure at the sanctuary?

4. Why did the other bonobos attack Pweto?

5. In Chapter 7, who arranges for Sophie to have transport to the airport and out of the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Sophie remember about the difference between young bonobos and adult bonobos?

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

3. In Chapter 2, how does Sophie describe her mother?

4. In Chapter 1, why are the roads in Kinshasa always so crowded?

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

6. In Chapter 1, why does Sophie pay the man who has the baby bonobo to take the bonobo home with her?

7. In Chapter 9, what does Sophie think changes Anastasia's mind about charging her and hurting her?

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

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

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

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