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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 12, what does Sophie realize was the cause of her fall in the night?
(a) Hunters had shot at her.
(b) Otto had played a game, tipping her out of the nest.
(c) Anastasia had knocked her out of the nest.
(d) Birds had pecked away at her nest.

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

3. What does Sophie often do to Otto as a sign of affection?
(a) Rub his ears.
(b) Blow raspberries on his foot.
(c) Slap him lightly on the bottom.
(d) Groom him.

4. In Chapter 15, why does Sophie think Mushie does not build her a nest?
(a) Because Anastasia told Mushie not to build Sophie a nest.
(b) Because Mushie is lost in the jungle somewhere.
(c) Because Mushie is angry at Sophie.
(d) Because they are all confused and thrown by the chaos of the escape.

5. What does the second U.N. guard tell Sophie in Chapter 17?
(a) They can help her as long as she has her own food and water.
(b) They can help her because her father is a very rich and persistent man.
(c) If she can pay them, they can help her.
(d) They can probably work something out to help her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, why does Songololo shriek so joyfully as she escapes with Sophie and Otto?

2. In Chapter 16, what does Otto start doing to the boys at the school that the boys think is funny?

3. In Chapter 17, what do the people in the crowd take from Sophie?

4. Who helps Sophie in Chapter 17 when the crowd begins to close in on her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie's mother's letter to her say?

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

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 18, why does Sophie select Wello as a probable good choice to take her up the river?

6. In Chapter 12, what does Sophie watch the bonobos do and attempt to mimic to try to stay dry when it rains?

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

8. In Chapter 14, why does Sophie's plan of escaping from the sanctuary enclosure with just Otto not work?

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

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

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