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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nhamo procrastinate checking her animal traps?
(a) She is dizzy.
(b) She does not need food.
(c) She has other things to do.
(d) It is getting dark.

2. What comforts Nhamo after she is stung?
(a) A cool rain.
(b) The baboons.
(c) The voice of her mother.
(d) The gentle wind.

3. What ruins Nhamo's traps?
(a) A large bird.
(b) A snake.
(c) A wild cat.
(d) A baboon.

4. What is the name of Masvita's aunt in the other village?
(a) Violet.
(b) Vilate.
(c) Vatete.
(d) Volliant.

5. Who notices that Nhamo is jealous of Masvita's womanhood?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Chipo.
(c) Kafu.
(d) Masvita.

6. What is Nhamo's most prized possession?
(a) A magazine cover.
(b) A chocolate wrapper.
(c) A tea cup.
(d) A tin box.

7. What does Nhamo use to wash the dishes?
(a) Bathing water.
(b) Waterless soap.
(c) River water.
(d) Ash and sand.

8. What did Princess Senwa do when her husband betrayed her?
(a) Killed their baby.
(b) Sang a sad song the rest of her days.
(c) Jumped off a cliff.
(d) Cursed him.

9. Who helps a girl when she reaches womanhood?
(a) The mother.
(b) The eldest sister.
(c) An aunt.
(d) A grandmother.

10. What does Nhamo get stung by while working on her boat?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A hornet.
(c) A horned beetle.
(d) A bee.

11. What shows that Masvita is entering womanhood?
(a) Her monthly bleeding.
(b) Her sprouting bosoms.
(c) Her prominent brow.
(d) Her long hair.

12. What does Masvita's aunt die from?
(a) Diphtheria.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Typhoid.
(d) Cholera.

13. What killed Nhamo's mother?
(a) A strange sickness.
(b) A lion.
(c) A leopard.
(d) A jealous man.

14. What do the baboons refuse to do for the deformed baboon?
(a) Protect him.
(b) Groom him.
(c) Sleep near him.
(d) Hunt for him.

15. What is the hozi?
(a) The church.
(b) The river fountain.
(c) A communal storage facility.
(d) The house of Nhamo's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nhamo see in the night that gives her hope?

2. Why is Nhamo sitting in a fig tree at the beginning of the book?

3. How long does Nhamo fight the current before she sees land?

4. In a dream, what does Crocodile Guts remind Nhamo to do?

5. What is Princess Senwa's husband's name?

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