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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. How many chickens were alive by Christmas in 2001?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.
2. How many of Trywell's and John's sisters were already buried in the cemetery where John was buried?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.
3. Where did the trader live who had had gum balls stolen from him?
(a) Mwase.
(b) Kasungu.
(c) Masitala.
(d) Masaka.
4. What interest rate were traders and businessmen charging as the famine dragged on?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 200 percent.
(c) 15 percent.
(d) 300 percent.
5. Where was it rumored that some farmers caught men in their fields and cut off the men's arms?
(a) Kenji.
(b) Chipoka.
(c) Chilobwe.
(d) Mitundu.
Short Answer Questions
1. What were the best batteries for William and Geoffrey to use for their radio repair business?
2. How long did children believe it took witch planes to travel to Zambia and London?
3. What school was William attending in Chapter 4?
4. How many radio stations were available in Malawi for many years?
5. How many cakes did Agnes make a day to sell?
Short Essay Questions
1. What plan did Trywell devise to keep his family alive during the famine?
2. How did William persuade the headmaster at school to allow him to attend school even though William didn't have the proper footwear?
3. What did William determine to do after he failed to get into the secondary school that he wanted to attend?
4. How did William's family celebrate Christmas before the famine?
5. What happened to Chief Wimbe after he spoke and asked the president to buy grain?
6. Why did Trywell hand over John's business to John's first-born son?
7. How did William say that his father saved him from certain death when William was 6?
8. How did William describe courtship rituals?
9. How did Khamba die?
10. Why was cholera a terrible way to die?
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