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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after the boy from Malakal was retrieved was he lost again, according to the witness narrative in Chapter 6?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

2. What do you eat during the rights of manhood ritual described by Tracker in Chapter 2?
(a) Abarra.
(b) Oba Olushere.
(c) Mingi.
(d) Durra porridge.

3. 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) 70 moons.
(b) 100 moons.
(c) 40 moons.
(d) 20 moons.

4. What is the name of the woman who arose from a liquid puddle in Chapter 8?
(a) Nsaka Ne Vampi.
(b) Kudoda.
(c) Sogolon.
(d) Zareba.

5. For how long had the King been dead that the Queen asked Tracker to find for her in Chapter 1?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 8 years.

6. Who is the man who commissioned trackers to find his son?
(a) Kwesi.
(b) Kwash Netu.
(c) Amadu Kasawura.
(d) Kudoda.

7. How does Tracker describe the Prince's daughter when he last saw her in her window in Chapter 6?
(a) Her head a black stump.
(b) Her head a white sphere.
(c) Her neck, a broken wing.
(d) Her hair on fire.

8. What word does Tracker use to refer to "a buyer of boys" in Chapter 4?
(a) Zareba.
(b) Basha.
(c) Mingi.
(d) Yumbo.

9. What is the capital city of the North where Tracker found many jobs working to track people, according to the narrative in Chapter 5?
(a) Dolingo.
(b) Luala Luala.
(c) Fasisi.
(d) Ku.

10. Where did Tracker move after leaving the capital city of the North in Chapter 5?
(a) Kongor.
(b) Mitu.
(c) Dolingo.
(d) Malakal.

11. The narrator states in Chapter 1, "I am just a man who some have called" what (12)?
(a) "A leopard."
(b) "A wolf."
(c) "A monster."
(d) "A beast."

12. Who led the party that killed the mingi in Chapter 5?
(a) Tracker's uncle.
(b) The Gangatom.
(c) The Luala Luala.
(d) The Juba warriors.

13. Where did the slaver entrust the child to a housekeeper before he was kidnapped?
(a) Kongor.
(b) Luala Luala.
(c) Dolingo.
(d) Fasisi.

14. Who are the enemies of the Ku across the river?
(a) The Gangatom.
(b) The Luala Luala.
(c) The Oba Olushere.
(d) The Makala.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are giants of the mountain lands called in the novel?

2. How often did Tracker's uncle tell him his people celebrate death and rebirth in Chapter 2?

3. How did Giraffe Boy come to live with the woman in the woods?

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

5. What did the slaver offer to Tracker to drink in their meeting in Chapter 7?

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