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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 does Sophie take with her from the U.N. station when she sneaks away with Otto?
(a) Money.
(b) Rations and iodine.
(c) Helmets.
(d) Guns.

2. In Chapter 14, why does Songololo shriek so joyfully as she escapes with Sophie and Otto?
(a) She sees all the food in front of them, and she is starving.
(b) She sees her mother Anastasia following them.
(c) She sees her sister Banalia following them.
(d) She sees her partner Mushie following them.

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

4. In Chapter 12, what awakens Sophie with a start from her sleep?
(a) Otto's cries of pain.
(b) The calls of lions.
(c) Her falling out of her nest.
(d) The sound of gunshots.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part V of the book?

2. What does Sophie often do to Otto as a sign of affection?

3. In Chapter 18, what does the man who Sophie asks to take her up the Congo River ask her for as payment?

4. Why does Sophie think people at the airport have dressed in fine clothes?

5. Why does Sophie hope the other bonobos do not follow her and Otto out of the enclosure in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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