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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the area of Kongor called where "artists and artisans who made crafts for the homes of the nobles" live (357)?
(a) The Nyembe quarter.
(b) The Nimbe quarter.
(c) The Gallunkobe/Matyube quarter.
(d) The Tarobe quarter.

2. What is "the official and provider of food. Also stealer" (42) called in Chapter 2?
(a) The Yumbo.
(b) The bumbangi.
(c) Oba Olushere.
(d) The makala.

3. What is Sogolon said to be master of in Chapter 16?
(a) The lands to the west.
(b) The lands to the east.
(c) The ten and nine doors.
(d) Dolingo.

4. What did the Itaki appear as when Tracker and the King passed back to the world of the living?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A little girl.
(c) An old crone.
(d) A snake.

5. How did Giraffe Boy come to live with the woman in the woods?
(a) She saved him from Leopard.
(b) She saved him from a river.
(c) She saved him from a witch.
(d) She saved him from a lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have hidden the boy in her womb to save him from the Omoluzu in Chapter 12?

2. Who was supposed to succeed to the thronedom based on history, according to Sogolon in Chapter 17?

3. Who is described in Chapter 10 as "the quiet one" that is "more vicious than his cousin" (328)?

4. How old is an Ogo when "the Ogo becomes the monster the gods fated him to become" (416)?

5. What did Kava do to make the hippopotamus slink away in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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