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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Nhamo watch a wasp kill?
(a) A spider.
(b) Another wasp.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A hornet.
2. Where does Nhamo stay during the storm?
(a) In a cave.
(b) An abandoned hut.
(c) A hollow tree.
(d) Her overturned boat.
3. What does Nhamo do when she finds a goat underground?
(a) Chases it away.
(b) Drinks some milk.
(c) Kills and eats it.
(d) Lay down with it.
4. What does Nhamo do with the carcass she finds after leaving the cave?
(a) Buries it.
(b) Skins it.
(c) Prays over it.
(d) Takes some meat to smoke it.
5. Who does the woman in the margarine ad look like?
(a) Nhamo's grandmother.
(b) Nhamo.
(c) Musuku.
(d) Edina.
6. What does Nhamo call Dr. Masuku?
(a) Misses.
(b) Mary.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Mother.
7. Why does Dr. Masuku not want to get married?
(a) It is old fashioned.
(b) She is wealthy.
(c) Her mother told her not to.
(d) It is like slavery.
8. Why does Dr. Van Heerden interrupt Baba Joseph when he is trying to cure Nhamo?
(a) He is worried about her.
(b) He doesn't want a law suit.
(c) He needs to speak to Nhamo.
(d) His shift has started.
9. To whom does Nhamo tell her story at her family's house?
(a) A nganga.
(b) The servant.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her cousin.
10. What makes Nhamo so listless as she works on her boat?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Stress.
(c) Sickness.
(d) Boredom.
11. Where does Nhamo go for summer vacation?
(a) The island.
(b) Efifi.
(c) Her father's mountain.
(d) Her home village.
12. Why does Dr. Van Heerden not go with Nhamo the first time she approaches the family?
(a) He does not want to intrude.
(b) Nhamo asks to go alone.
(c) He is white.
(d) He has an appointment.
13. Why does the person Nhamo talks to at her family's house accept her?
(a) She looks like his first wife.
(b) She is pretty.
(c) She is a person in need.
(d) She has lived an amazing life.
14. With what do the baboons in Nhamo's story fill a goat skin?
(a) Hay.
(b) Banana peels.
(c) Droppings.
(d) Dirt.
15. Where did Nhamo's grandfather make his fortune?
(a) In the fishing business.
(b) In the research profession.
(c) In the steel mines.
(d) In the chrome mines.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Nhamo attack Dr. Van Heerden when he comes back from the city?
2. In what form do the njuzu come?
3. Which of the following spirits does NOT come to Nhamo to speak with her at the end of the book?
4. What is Nhamo's mother doing in her dream after she sees the goat underground?
5. What was Nhamo's father's totem animal?
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