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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. Why do people hang ears of corn on ropes?
(a) To keep them away from the farm animals.
(b) To keep them away from the pets.
(c) To keep them away from the children.
(d) To keep them away from the neighbors.

2. What does Camara begin to do in the rice fields?
(a) Pray.
(b) Sing.
(c) Read.
(d) Daydream.

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

4. Why do women who want a golden trinket hire a praise-singer to have the trinket made well and on time?
(a) To act as a priest.
(b) To act as a friend.
(c) To act as a seller.
(d) To act as a go-between.

5. Camara tells who about what has been happening at school?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) The apprentices.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Camara's father send his children to school?

2. What does Camara love to do in the evenings while in Tindican?

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

4. How did Camara's father initially feel after the special snake's first appearance?

5. Where are Camara's parents' huts located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of Lansana.

2. What does the second half of the reapers' days look like?

3. One day, a woman comes to Camara's father's shop with gold. She wants the gold made into a trinket. What is special about having a trinket made?

4. Who is Sidafa, and what do you know about him?

5. When does young Camara find his friends in Tindican, and what do they do?

6. What happens in Tindican during the rice season in December?

7. How are Camara's father's apprentices treated, and how does Camara feel about this?

8. Camara's mother has special powers. How is that manifested in chapter 5? What is her association to a horse?

9. Why does Camara's father tell Camara the story about the special snake? What else does he suggest to Camara about the snake?

10. Describe the douga. What is its association to Camara's father's gold work?

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