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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Azaro eavesdrop on at the bar?
(a) Merchants.
(b) Male customers.
(c) The women.
(d) Tax collectors.

2. Who chases Azaro when he runs from the bar?
(a) Madame Koto and the women from the village.
(b) His father and Madame Koto.
(c) The spirits and Madame Koto.
(d) The landlord and his father.

3. Even though Azaro's father is working and his mother sells wares, what are they short of at home?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Money.

4. Who returns to Azaro's home and talks about killing the rats?
(a) A neighbor.
(b) The photographer.
(c) Madame Koto.
(d) The landlord.

5. Who owns the bar that Azaro's father takes him to for a drink?
(a) The police officer.
(b) It is not stated who owns the bar.
(c) Azaro's grandfather.
(d) Madame Koto.

6. The man Azaro helps out the back door and away from the thugs chasing him is caught by them and taken where?
(a) Into the woods.
(b) Away in a car.
(c) Behind the bar.
(d) Into the bathroom.

7. Who do most of the spirits leave with after the celebration?
(a) Madame Koto.
(b) The police officer.
(c) The landlord.
(d) The photographer.

8. Looking through the mask everything becomes _______.
(a) Smaller.
(b) Dark.
(c) Bright.
(d) Distorted.

9. A blind man on the street sees Azaro and chases him to get what so he can see?
(a) His glasses.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His hands.
(d) His power.

10. Azaro's father comes to the bar after Azaro returns from the building where he is bathed and fed, and Azaro's father gets into an argument over politics with whom?
(a) Madame Koto.
(b) His wife.
(c) The prostitutes.
(d) The landlord.

11. Why do the spirits floating in the crowds chase Azaro?
(a) Because he could see them.
(b) Because was afraid of them.
(c) Because he tried to get rid of them.
(d) Because he tried to ignore them.

12. After the thugs declare that they will bring Koto more business since she supported them, what do they promise to get her for the bar?
(a) Running Water.
(b) Better Lighting.
(c) Electricity.
(d) More Palm Wine.

13. As the spirits call to Azaro on the street, he faints and is taken where?
(a) Nowhere; he was left on the street.
(b) Home.
(c) To the local doctor.
(d) To the home of a police officer.

14. Who takes the weapon from Azaro's father after the men flee?
(a) Madame Koto.
(b) Azaro.
(c) The thugs.
(d) The prostitutes.

15. Azaro's father argues with Madame Koto's new customers and challenges them to a fight outside, but they do what?
(a) Left the bar.
(b) Locked him out of the bar.
(c) Laughed at him.
(d) Ignored his challenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Koto asks for Azaro to come back to the bar he does, and Azaro notices a new ________ for the bar.

2. Through his mother's friends, what does Azaro learn about the women now working in Madame Koto's bar?

3. The police officer's home has several spirits and even more come; then, during a huge storm the house catches on fire from what?

4. After arguing with Azaro's mother, what do the creditors finally take for debt repayment?

5. What happens to the garbage by the van?

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