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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 – 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tracker say is above us in the end of Chapter 1?
(a) The sky.
(b) A bat.
(c) A roof.
(d) Impundulu.

2. What does Kava call the "master of charms and spells" (42) in the ritual in Chapter 2?
(a) The makala.
(b) The Yumbo.
(c) Oba Olushere.
(d) The bumbangi.

3. What literary device is employed in the following sentence from Chapter 1? "Truth eats lies just as the crocodile eats the moon" (12).
(a) Allusion.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

4. When Tracker encountered the old crone on his way to Monono, she told him that if she lay with a man, she lives without dying for how long?
(a) 20 moons.
(b) 100 moons.
(c) 70 moons.
(d) 40 moons.

5. By what name does the witchman in the hut call "the cool and gentle snake" in Chapter 2?
(a) The Mingi.
(b) The makala.
(c) Oba Olushere.
(d) The Abarra.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does Tracker address his audience in the narrative?

2. What animal did Tracker watch Leopard kill on the 28th night away from the Ku in Chapter 4?

3. What did Tracker's father demand to drink from his wife, then abusing her, in Chapter 1?

4. What are the rights of manhood called by the villagers that take Tracker in Chapter 2?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "I am just a man who some have called" what (12)?

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