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

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

3. Why will no one touch the village "madman" in Part I?
(a) He has promised certain death to anyone that does.
(b) They think they will be cursed if they do.
(c) He has skin lesions.
(d) He never comes to the village, so they never see him.

4. Who helps take care of The Sick One when he gets really sick?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Yaya.
(c) The children.
(d) Woja Beki.

5. What is the group that eventually does get money from Pexton for Kosawa?
(a) The Human Rights Campaign.
(b) The Long Horn.
(c) The Faraon.
(d) The Restoration Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one major mystical act the medicine men in the village can perform?

2. Who is one of the respected village elders?

3. Which neighbor did Malabo used to visit that no one else seemed to like?

4. What is happening to the village children as a result of pollution in Part I?

5. Who brings Thula's brother "back to life"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Big Papa like?

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

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

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

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

7. What does The Sick One eventually tell the Kosawans in Part II?

8. What happens when the soldiers do actually come to Kosawa in Part I?

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

10. Why do people always avoid touching Konga?

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