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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 kind of animals does Sophie remind herself that bonobos are in Chapter 14?
(a) Social foragers.
(b) Loners.
(c) Predators.
(d) Pack animals.

2. Who is the oldest bonobo?
(a) Ikwa.
(b) Mushie.
(c) Anastasia.
(d) Songololo.

3. What does Sophie feel accompanies her fear as she rides on the motorbike with Otto in Chapter 17?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Anger.

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

5. In Chapter 16, what does the old man at the school ask Sophie to do to help them?
(a) Send them some chemicals to treat and cleanse their water.
(b) Find some weapons for them to use to defend themselves.
(c) Ask for help to get the boys there out of the school safely, or to help get antiretroviral drugs.
(d) Get some American money for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, what does Otto develop that worries Sophie?

2. Why does Hector say Otto is lucky in Chapter 17?

3. What do Wello and Sophie always eat for breakfast and lunch on the boat?

4. Who does Sophie realizes has a crush on Anastasia?

5. In Chapter 16, what is one thing that is strange about the rebels Sophie sees passing by in vehicles?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 13, what does Sophie think about the significance of the fact that in Lingala, the word for animal is the plural form of the word for meat?

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

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

5. In Chapter 20, how does Sophie feel after she and Otto get off Wello's boat?

6. In Chapter 17, what changes Sophie's mind about leaving Otto in the Congo and taking a U.N. transport to the U.S.?

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

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

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

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

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