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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 is the name of one particular apprentice Camara remembers?
(a) Sidafa.
(b) Sidame.
(c) Saddam.
(d) Sidmund.
2. What does Camara do at the end of the meals?
(a) He gives his parents a kiss.
(b) He gives his parents a hug.
(c) He bows to his parents.
(d) He just walks away.
3. What does Camara's grandmother tell him every time she sees him?
(a) That he's too shy.
(b) That he's too skinny.
(c) That he's too fat.
(d) That he's too unhealthy.
4. Why does Camara pull Fanta's hair?
(a) Because she is childish.
(b) Because he doesn't like her.
(c) Because she is a girl.
(d) Because she is a friend.
5. Camara's mother displays what sort of attitude?
(a) Disgusting.
(b) Humble.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Authoritarian.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Camara's father tell this story to his son?
2. How long is the walk from Kouroussa to Tindican when Camara does it with his youngest uncle?
3. Where does Camara's grandmother store milk?
4. What does Camara love to do in the evenings while in Tindican?
5. What does Camara do when he goes to the rice fields during harvest?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Camara thinking while he is in the rice fields with all the reapers?
2. Where are Camara's parents' huts located, and what are the consequences of living in that location?
3. What does the second half of the reapers' days look like?
4. How did Camara's father know about this specific task of gold work, and how did he prepare himself to execute the work?
5. Describe the initial relationship between Camara and Fanta?
6. Describe the douga. What is its association to Camara's father's gold work?
7. What happens when Camara's friend Kouyate Karmoko says that he's had enough after a particularly cruel beating?
8. Describe the character of Lansana.
9. What do the reapers do while they work on the fields, and how is their relationship?
10. Why does Camara's father always do the gold work himself, never leaving it to the apprentices or other workers?
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