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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. What does Sophie give to the people from the crowd at the airport who help her reach the U.N.?
2. In Chapter 12, what does Otto develop that worries Sophie?
3. Which country does Hector tell Sophie is the biggest exporter of coltan, diamonds, and gold?
4. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie anticipate will be her hardest challenge?
5. What does Hector tell Sophie the DRC is the richest country in the world in terms of?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 14, why does Sophie's plan of escaping from the sanctuary enclosure with just Otto not work?
2. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie's mother's letter to her say?
3. In Chapter 18, how does Sophie plan to try to reach her mother?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 15, who saves Sophie and the bonobos from the hunter, and how do the bonobos react to the savior afterwards?
6. In Chapter 18, why does Sophie select Wello as a probable good choice to take her up the river?
7. In Chapter 17, who helps Sophie get across the stream of people to where the U.N. has its headquarters?
8. What does the old man at the school and AIDS clinic tell Sophie about how the rebels select boys to fill out their ranks?
9. In Chapter 14, what strikes Sophie about the way the rebels look compared to the way the bonobos in the sanctuary look?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing Sophie's attitudes towards the Democratic Republic of Congo in the beginning of the novel, before the rebels take over the sanctuary.
Essay Topic 2
In a country where crushing poverty affects millions of people, the bonobos in Sophie's mother's sanctuary arguably had a better quality of life than many humans. Write an essay exploring the range of perspectives different characters in the book expressed about this state of affairs.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analyzing how Sophie's relationship with Otto and her experiences trekking through the DRC during its time of violent upheaval changes the nature of her relationship with her mother, Florence.
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