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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 does Nhamo see in the night that gives her hope?
(a) A curve in the river.
(b) A light.
(c) A star.
(d) A herd of cranes.

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

3. What does the family not do while eating dinner?
(a) Chew their food.
(b) Drink.
(c) Talk.
(d) Look at each other.

4. What does Nhamo use to hollow out her boat?
(a) Hot coals.
(b) A spear.
(c) Termites.
(d) Acidic venom.

5. What are njuzu?
(a) Nutritional water plants.
(b) River scavengers.
(c) Strange waves.
(d) Water spirits.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nhamo try to imitate while learning to swim?

3. What does Nhamo teach herself during her boat journey?

4. Whom does Nhamo dream about going over a cliff?

5. What ruins Nhamo's traps?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Grandmother say Chipo never liked Nhamo?

2. What does Nhamo dream about after being stung?

3. How does Nhamo feel when the hippos are gone, and why?

4. What kinds of things occupy Nhamo's time when she is first settling on the island?

5. What does Grandmother tell Nhamo about her mother the day Masvita enters womanhood?

6. What does Nhamo do for Masvita when she can't sleep?

7. What does Nhamo do to get the deformed baboon off the small island?

8. What does Nhamo see as a positive sign from the spirit of the dead man in the hut?

9. What story does Nhamo's grandmother tell her at the beginning of the book?

10. What happens when the baboons on the island see Nhamo?

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