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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 day of the week does Elias begin teaching Benjamin to make beams in Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 15, what day of the week does Fiela return to Knysna?

3. In Chapter 20, how long does Elias remember that it took a cow to find a man at Karatara who shot a calf and trample him to death?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 18, what notch does Benjamin cut in the pole?

5. In Chapter 20, how long has Elias been trapped on Barnard's Island?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Benjamin become Lukas in Chapter 19?

2. Why does Elias pay Han Oukas 10 sweet potatoes?

3. In Chapter 19, what arrangements does Elias make for Nina, and how does she react?

4. In Chapter 14, what happens when Nina returns after she runs off?

5. Why do the Komoeties build a shelter, and what type of shelter do they build in Chapter 15?

6. In Chapter 22, where is Nina, and what does Lukas ask of her?

7. At the end of Chapter 20, what does Willem learn when he takes Nina back to the village when she returns after a week?

8. What is Elias's latest plan to trap an elephant for its tusks in Chapter 16?

9. In Chapter 18, what do Fiela and Dawid bring Benjamin?

10. What are Fiela's children doing in Chapter 21?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Strangers often treat people from the forest as inconsequential and uneducated. Who is a man that Malie remembers camping near her home? What did the man denigrate her family for doing? Was the man a hypocrite for denigrating Malie’s family?

Essay Topic 2

An epiphany is a realization that can be enlightening and help solve a situation or problem. What epiphany does Benjamin have in Chapter 23? How does the epiphany change him and the direction of his life?

Essay Topic 3

Elias is always wanting to make more money with minimum effort. Why does Elias decide he can make money from the elephants? How does his obsession with the elephants backfire?

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