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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman do when the trinket is presented to her?
(a) She sits down.
(b) She trembles.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She sighs.

2. What kind of woman visits Camara's father's shop in chapter two?
(a) A representative of all the women who come to the shop with gold.
(b) A representative of all the villagers who come to the shop with silver.
(c) A normal member of all the women who come to the shop with silver.
(d) A representative of all the women who come to the shop with silver.

3. Camara's mother displays what sort of attitude?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Humble.
(c) Authoritarian.
(d) Disgusting.

4. What does Camara do when he goes to the rice fields during harvest?
(a) He brings the stalks of rice back to the village.
(b) He bundles the stalks of rice.
(c) He burns the stalks of rice.
(d) He cuts the stalks of rice.

5. What instrument does the praise-singer pull out when singing the praises of Camara's father in chapter 2?
(a) A guitar.
(b) A harp.
(c) A violin.
(d) A drum.

6. Who does Camara walk to school with when he is a child?
(a) With his brother.
(b) With his sister.
(c) With his friend.
(d) With his nephew.

7. Who does Camara share his bed with?
(a) His father's older apprentices.
(b) His brothers.
(c) His sisters.
(d) His father's younger apprentices.

8. What does Camara think about country people?
(a) That they are stupid.
(b) That they are undignified and considerate.
(c) That they are inconsiderate.
(d) That they are dignified and considerate.

9. Why does Camara feel self-conscious in his school clothes while in Tindican?
(a) Because they are uncomfortable.
(b) Because they look different from the other boys' clothes.
(c) Because they are expensive.
(d) Because they look similar to the other boys' clothes.

10. Who cuts the first swath of rice from the field on the day of the harvest?
(a) The head of each family.
(b) The mother of each family.
(c) The praise-singer.
(d) The eldest son of each family.

11. What does Camara do when the reapers need water?
(a) He runs to fetch it.
(b) He doesn't do anything.
(c) He walks to fetch it.
(d) He collects it from the rain.

12. Who do the older children take their frustration out on?
(a) Their parents.
(b) The teacher.
(c) The younger children.
(d) Their friends.

13. What does Camara know about the harvest tradition?
(a) Not much.
(b) Everything.
(c) He understands where it comes from.
(d) He learned much about the tradition.

14. What do the reapers use to do their work?
(a) Sickles.
(b) Axes.
(c) Knives.
(d) Spirits.

15. Where do the people of Camara's village occasionally find gold?
(a) In the clay.
(b) In the sand.
(c) In the mud.
(d) In the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Camara's friend Kouyate look like?

2. What does Camara begin to do in the rice fields?

3. Who do the children occasionally complain to when being taken advantage of?

4. When does rice season occur in Tindican?

5. Some of Camara's brothers and sisters don't fit in his mother's hut. Where do they sleep?

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