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

2. Why does Camara pull Fanta's hair?
(a) Because he doesn't like her.
(b) Because she is childish.
(c) Because she is a girl.
(d) Because she is a friend.

3. What does Camara's grandmother do with him when she takes him around her village?
(a) She makes him talk to everybody.
(b) She makes him sing.
(c) She shows him off.
(d) She holds him the whole time.

4. Some of Camara's brothers and sisters don't fit in his mother's hut. Where do they sleep?
(a) In their uncle's hut.
(b) In their father's mother's hut.
(c) In their father's hut.
(d) In their mother's mother's hut.

5. Why does Camara assume that his father underwent the rituals of preparing to work with gold before he even stepped foot in the shop the morning of the woman's arrival with gold?
(a) Because his father has done this specific task before.
(b) Because his father already read about this specific task.
(c) Because his father already dreamt about this specific task.
(d) Because his father already heard about this specific task.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the older children take their frustration out on?

2. Why does Camara's father always do the gold work himself?

3. What does Camara's school teacher do?

4. What does Camara love to do when Lansana's twin shows up in Tindican?

5. Who prepares the food in Camara's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the behavior of Camara's school teacher in the French school he attended as a child.

3. While he was growing up, what were the rules during meals in Camara's parents' household?

4. What does the praise-singer who acts as a middle man between the woman with the gold and Camara's father do in the workshop?

5. Describe the character of Lansana.

6. 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?

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

8. What is the result of years of abuse for the school children?

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

10. When Camara arrives in Tindican as a child, how does his grandmother react?

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