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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Thula's grandfather known for?
(a) Being sad and laconic.
(b) Being the life of the party.
(c) Being a very hard worker.
(d) Being optimistic.

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

3. What do the villagers call their homes?
(a) Faras.
(b) Huts.
(c) Helias.
(d) Sheds.

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

5. What is Konga's last name?
(a) Kojil.
(b) Holika.
(c) Faraina.
(d) Wanjika.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thula survive the massacre?

2. Who does Bongo's girlfriend leave him for?

3. Where do the oil company laborers live?

4. What is the group that eventually does get money from Pexton for Kosawa?

5. What place does Bongo remember reading a picture book about in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Bongo see in Thula as she grows in Part II?

2. What happens to Juba in Part I?

3. What has broken Bongo's heart in Part II?

4. Why is Thula afraid to go to school the day after Konga takes the Pexton driver's key?

5. How does Bongo remember Thula's birth and its aftermath?

6. Why did many people try to dissuade Malabo from traveling to the capital to appeal to Pexton?

7. What does Bongo think when he first meets Austin?

8. Why are the Kosawans so upset with Pexton in Part I?

9. What is the significance of the leopard to the Kosawans?

10. What is "the Spirit" to Kosawans?

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