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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 7, what does Sophie pack her bag with to leave the country?

2. In Chapter 6, what do the strangers who come to the sanctuary ask Sophie that unsettles her?

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

4. What does Clement tell Sophie and the smuggler is the problem with the sale the smuggler tries to make to Sophie in Chapter 1?

5. What do the sanctuary workers tell Sophie she should do in Chapter 6 because she is a U.S. citizen?

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. In Chapter 6, how does Sophie feel about the fact that she is set to be rescued from the chaos because she is an American citizen?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Clement tell Sophie about how her mother will react when she finds out Sophie bought the bonobo?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Sophie say about her parents' marriage and why it fell apart?

6. In Chapter 2, how does Sophie describe her mother?

7. In Chapter 2, what does Patrice tell Sophie about the state of the baby bonobo she has just bought?

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, what does the sanctuary's chef, Emile, do that touches Sophie?

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

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 analyzing the tension and interactions between Sophie and the "queen" ape, Anastasia. What do Sophie and Anastasia have in common? What are their biggest differences?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 17, Sophie witnesses the desperate scene at the airport of throngs of people hoping to get out the country. She finally wavers and considers leaving Otto to evacuate without him, but she witnesses something at the U.N. headquarters that changes her mind completely. Write an essay analyzing Sophie's decision not to evacuate and identifying the reasons for her changing her mind.

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