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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bongo ask the Spirit for every morning?
(a) Reasons to be grateful.
(b) His brother back.
(c) Water.
(d) Healing.

2. Who does Sahel remember singing in the bath?
(a) Yaya.
(b) Big Papa.
(c) Bongo.
(d) Juba.

3. What animal has special significance to the villagers?
(a) Lion.
(b) Turtle.
(c) Leopard.
(d) Otter.

4. How do the villagers get to Bezam?
(a) Bus.
(b) Boat.
(c) Car.
(d) Train.

5. Who are the two men from the group that helps Kosawa at the end of Part II?
(a) The Old One and the Young One.
(b) The Far One and the Near One.
(c) The Cute One and the Sweet One.
(d) The Rich One and the Poor One.

6. Who do the villagers become concerned about dying in Part II?
(a) The Leader.
(b) The Round One.
(c) The Sick One.
(d) The Fat One.

7. What do the villagers want from the Pexton men?
(a) The names of people to talk to that might help the villagers.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Notoriety.

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

9. Who are some of the first to shed blood in the massacre?
(a) Yaya.
(b) Sahel.
(c) Woja Beki.
(d) Jakani and Sakani.

10. Why do some children linger outside of Woja Beki's house in Part II?
(a) To see if they will get extra food.
(b) To see if they can see a spirit there.
(c) To see if anyone visits.
(d) To see if they can hear crying.

11. What does Konga tell the men about the ones who try to save the village and the ones who try to destroy it?
(a) They are always rich.
(b) They are always poor.
(c) They are from different countries.
(d) They are the same.

12. What do the villagers do with the oil company men in Part I?
(a) Hold them hostage.
(b) Starve them.
(c) Kill them.
(d) Make them drink the dirty water.

13. Who is Bongo's ex-girlfriend?
(a) Rafa.
(b) Sahel.
(c) Elali.
(d) Fara.

14. Who are the medicine and mystic men of the village?
(a) Woja and Lukasa.
(b) Sakani and Jakani.
(c) Fari and Kari.
(d) Malabo and Bongo.

15. Who is the village leader at the beginning of Part I?
(a) Bongo.
(b) Malabo.
(c) Lukasa.
(d) Woja Beki.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first age-mate, and Lukasa's son, that dies that Thula and her friends really take notice of?

2. What did Bongo once go to school to be?

3. What kind of tree does the village gather under at important times?

4. Who helps take care of The Sick One when he gets really sick?

5. Who is one of Sahel's best friends?

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