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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 289 - 364).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thula urge her age-mates in Kosawa to do in her letters from America?
(a) Fight Pexton.
(b) Cook more food.
(c) Hunt less often.
(d) Gather money to visit her in America.

2. What does Pexton claim about the massacre?
(a) They had nothing to do with the soldiers' actions.
(b) They knew about the soldiers but not that they would kill anyone.
(c) They ordered the soldiers to go in.
(d) They wanted the soldiers to take hostages.

3. What does Yaya recall from when she was a little girl?
(a) Petting a cat for the first time.
(b) Riding in a car for the first time.
(c) Seeing oil for the first time.
(d) European visitors to Kosawa for the first time.

4. Who do many people tell Yaya is a replica of her own husband?
(a) Bongo.
(b) Sahel.
(c) Juba.
(d) Thula.

5. Who raised Bongo's father?
(a) Only his father.
(b) A cousin.
(c) Only his mother.
(d) One of his father's sister and her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Thula's visits to the village multiply following?

2. What does Juba feel when he "comes back from the dead" as a child?

3. What is the seat of government for Kosawa's district?

4. Who is Thula's brother?

5. Who is an ally of Sonni's in the quest to be village head?

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