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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 Valentino worried Michael is looking at in his bedroom?
(a) His photographs.
(b) His poems.
(c) His schoolwork.
(d) His diary.

2. What is the name of Valentino's tribe?
(a) Dooga.
(b) Blinka.
(c) Loopa.
(d) Dinka.

3. Who does Valentino claim started slavery?
(a) The Africans.
(b) The Aztecs.
(c) The Americans.
(d) The Arabs.

4. Who did Tabitha live with in Seattle?
(a) Powder.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Valentino.
(d) Her brother.

5. Where does Valentino go to get a container for the water?
(a) The museum.
(b) His father's shop.
(c) His mother's kitchen.
(d) The junkyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the woman say she needs to use Valentino's phone?

2. What is the compound full of?

3. What do rebel soldiers take from Valentino's father's shop without paying?

4. Who does Dut talk to at the village?

5. What does Valentino fetch for Amath?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Valentino introduce the themes of the book?

2. How does Valentino avoid the Arab soldiers in the forest?

3. How does Valentino show the cultural differences between Americans and Sudanese in Chapter 13?

4. Why do some of the Sudanese dislike Mary Williams?

5. How do the boys contract malaria?

6. What did Valentino know about African Americans before he came to America?

7. How does Valentino's mother react when they hear horses?

8. Why does Valentino join Dut and his group?

9. What does Valentino see happening from the church?

10. What does the African American couple want?

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