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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) Birds had pecked away at her nest.
(c) Anastasia had knocked her out of the nest.
(d) Otto had played a game, tipping her out of the nest.

2. In Chapter 18, what does the man who Sophie asks to take her up the Congo River ask her for as payment?
(a) Water.
(b) Otto.
(c) Food.
(d) Gold.

3. In Chapter 16, what does Otto start doing to the boys at the school that the boys think is funny?
(a) Grooming them.
(b) Playing tricks on them.
(c) Pulling on their toes.
(d) Feeding them.

4. In Chapter 19, what does Wello tell Sophie he hated to do in Kinshasa?
(a) Leave his family.
(b) Sell his fish to the rebels.
(c) Kill a bonobo.
(d) Buy provisions from the rebels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sophie think disgustedly that humans eating bonobos is nearly cannibilism?

2. In Chapter 16, what does the man at the school for boys give Sophie to drink at first?

3. In Chapter 18, what creature do Sophie and Otto stumble across as they make their way to the river?

4. What does Hector tell Sophie the DRC is the richest country in the world in terms of?

5. In Chapter 15, why does Sophie think Mushie does not build her a nest?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what are some of the signs that the bonobos are stressed and tired?

2. In Chapter 14, how does Sophie realize the electrified fence is no longer on?

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

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 12, why does Sophie find herself falling towards the ground in the middle of the night?

9. In Chapter 14, what is it that alerts the rebels to Sohie's and the bonobos' escape?

10. In Chapter 21, what does Sophie decide is her and Otto's best chance for survival after Otto is caught in a trapper's snare?

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