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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Sophie hear from the direction of the sanctuary as she hides in the enclosure?

2. In Chapter 8, who calms Sophie while she is terrified in the jungle?

3. In Chapter 10, what does Sophie see in the sanctuary that greatly upsets her?

4. What is Sophie's father's ethnic background?

5. What is one of the problems with treating animals for dehydration at the sanctuary?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the U.N. staff refuse to let Sophie take Otto with her on her flight out of the Congo?

2. In Chapter 6, when does Sophie begin to realize what trouble she and everyone at the sanctuary might be in?

3. Why does Sophie explain she finds it fitting that in one of the Congo's languages, Lingala, yesterday and tomorrow are the same word?

4. In Chapter 1, why are the roads in Kinshasa always so crowded?

5. In Chapter 6, why is the bonobo Pweto quarantined from the other animals?

6. Why do the nursery mamas at the sanctuary call Sophie "princesse" and what does the name mean to all of them?

7. In Chapter 1, why does Sophie pay the man who has the baby bonobo to take the bonobo home with her?

8. In Chapter 8, what does Sophie hear shortly after she enters the bonobo enclosure that makes her blood run cold?

9. In Chapter 4, why does the man who sold Otto to Sophie come to the sanctuary?

10. What does Sophie's mother tell her about the reason the baby bonobo is missing fingers in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Sophie's reaction to seeing her friends and her mother's staff brutally killed by rebel forces at the sanctuary. How does she process this trauma as a young girl?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the connection and bonds between Sophie and Otto, citing specific references to the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Sophie describes feeling as if the bonobos - including Pweto and Otto - had saved her life during the chaos and violence. Write an essay exploring how the bonobos protected Sophie during the unrest.

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