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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 does the newspaperman suggest to Bongo about travel?
(a) He wants them all to go to Egypt.
(b) He wants them to go to the big lake.
(c) He wants to come to Kosawa with Bongo and the others.
(d) He wants them all to go to America.

2. What happens to Thula's father in Part I?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He disappears.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) He drowns.

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

4. What is the oil company exploiting Thula's village?
(a) Pexton.
(b) Forlon.
(c) Marlon.
(d) Hexxon.

5. What does Thula call her grandmother?
(a) Fara.
(b) Yaya.
(c) Roja.
(d) Hela.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Thula and her family live?

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

3. What do the villagers want from the Pexton men?

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

5. Who tries to dissuade Bongo and the others from going to Bezam?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do people always avoid touching Konga?

2. What tragedy has struck Thula's family in her childhood?

3. How do the villagers feel about Woja Beki?

4. Why does The Sick One want to go home so badly?

5. What does Bongo think of his brother Malabo?

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

7. What was Big Papa like?

8. What does Bongo ask the Spirit for every morning?

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

10. What does Konga do that begins to change everything for Kosawa in Part I?

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