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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Azaro's family fears the other villagers are angry at them because someone had _________________.
(a) Thrown a pot of oil through the only window.
(b) Left an animal carcass at their door.
(c) Water soaked all their fire wood.
(d) Put out their cooking fire.

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

3. What causes the already vengeful crowd to break into pandemonium?
(a) Dead body found.
(b) Fire.
(c) Wild boar running loose.
(d) A gunshot.

4. While the police officer's home is on fire, who knocks on the door to get Azaro?
(a) His parents.
(b) His mother.
(c) Madame Koto.
(d) His father.

5. When Azaro is kidnapped during a fire and riot in his family's living compound, who tells him to run for his life?
(a) Another little boy.
(b) A cat.
(c) One of his kidnappers.
(d) A woman.

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

7. Who is in the van with the politicians, besides the thugs?
(a) Azaro's mother.
(b) Azaro.
(c) The landlord.
(d) Azaro's father.

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

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

10. Who does Azaro stare at and wish for the wind to punish when he wanders in the woods with the other children?
(a) An old man bothering the children.
(b) The politician that distributed the bad milk.
(c) The landlord.
(d) The white man in charge of the construction workers.

11. Who tells Azaro to follow him to the spirit world?
(a) The three-headed spirirt.
(b) The old man from the forest.
(c) The girl that kept blowing out the match.
(d) The king.

12. Back in the bar after Madame Koto is doing so well and has many new men and women dancing to music, who asks Azaro to marry her?
(a) One of his mother's friends.
(b) An albino.
(c) One of the spirits.
(d) A midget woman.

13. Who is born smiling?
(a) The abiku.
(b) The boy.
(c) The king.
(d) The babies.

14. The politicians in the van are of what party?
(a) The community party.
(b) The red party.
(c) The party of unity.
(d) The party of the rich.

15. After the animal is cooked, why do some of the villagers that come for the celebration get angry?
(a) They had to sit on the ground to eat.
(b) The boar was burned.
(c) They had to eat outside.
(d) There was not enough to feed everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the villagers fear is dead the morning after the violent clash with the thugs?

2. In the clearing, a tree grows over what Azaro buries in the forest. What does he bury?

3. Waiting for the bar to open, Azaro takes a walk in the forest and notices the forest is what?

4. In the spirit world, what is described as always hungry?

5. Azaro's name is changed from what when he awakens from a coffin?

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