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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 to go to the big lake.
(b) He wants them all to go to Egypt.
(c) He wants them all to go to America.
(d) He wants to come to Kosawa with Bongo and the others.

2. Who does Bongo's girlfriend leave him for?
(a) A priest.
(b) A president.
(c) A laborer.
(d) A lawyer.

3. How many soldiers come to the village in their first visit after the oil company men go missing?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

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

5. Where do the villagers initially keep the Pexton hostages?
(a) Malabo's.
(b) Hari's.
(c) Lukasa's.
(d) Wari's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Malabo's brother?

2. What do the villagers call their homes?

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

4. How many people does Thula's father tell her live in America, approximately?

5. What do the Pexton men tell the villagers will happen when they get to Bezam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bongo think of his brother Malabo?

2. What is the relationship between the Pexton laborers and the villagers?

3. What was Big Papa like?

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

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

6. What do the Kosawans ask the three Pexton leaders for in Part II?

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

8. How do the villagers feel about Woja Beki?

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

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

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