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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 17, what do the people in the crowd take from Sophie?
(a) Her duffel bag.
(b) Her motorbike and Otto.
(c) Her clean water.
(d) Her money.

2. When Sophie goes looking for the two young bonobos, what does she find?
(a) People surrounding a fire cooking the bonobos for their meat.
(b) Their two dead bodies.
(c) A trap that the bonobos have been caught in.
(d) Nothing.

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

4. What do bonobos often do with each other to help ease tension and anxiety?
(a) Rub up against each other.
(b) Eat together.
(c) Forage together.
(d) Sleep together.

5. What question does Hector, the U.N. guard, ask Sophie twice in Chapter 17?
(a) Whether she has a passport or papers.
(b) When she was originally supposed to leave Congo.
(c) What her father does for a living.
(d) Whether she has any money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what does the sign say that Sophie sees outside of the old colonial house she comes across?

2. What does Hector tell Sophie the U.N. did with the two young bonobos that were left there?

3. What is Sophie's plan to try to lose the rest of the bonobos as she and Otto press on with their journey?

4. In Chapter 12, why do some of the bonobos gravitate towards Sophie in the rain?

5. What does the second U.N. guard tell Sophie in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, why is Sophie so pleased to see abandoned fields of manioc in her travels?

2. In Chapter 17, why does Sophie surmise some of the people crowding the airport are dressed in fine clothes even though they are fleeing violence?

3. In Chapter 14, what strikes Sophie about the way the rebels look compared to the way the bonobos in the sanctuary look?

4. What does Sophie say is the advantage of the fear she feels in Chapter 17?

5. In Chapter 15, who saves Sophie and the bonobos from the hunter, and how do the bonobos react to the savior afterwards?

6. What does the old man at the school and AIDS clinic tell Sophie about how the rebels select boys to fill out their ranks?

7. Why does the first guard Sophie speaks to at the U.N. compound in Chapter 17 turn her away?

8. In Chapter 18, how does Sophie plan to try to reach her mother?

9. In Chapter 17, who helps Sophie get across the stream of people to where the U.N. has its headquarters?

10. In Chapter 15, why does Sophie decide she must leave all the bonobos in the jungle besides Otto as she goes off to find her mother?

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