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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Hector, the U.N. guard, ask Sophie twice in Chapter 17?
(a) What her father does for a living.
(b) Whether she has a passport or papers.
(c) Whether she has any money.
(d) When she was originally supposed to leave Congo.

2. In Chapter 16, what is one thing that is strange about the rebels Sophie sees passing by in vehicles?
(a) The men are all speaking different languages.
(b) The men are eating American food.
(c) The men do not have weapons at all.
(d) Some of the men are wearing evening gowns.

3. Which of the following is included in the U.N. ration packet Sophie took?
(a) Salad and fruit.
(b) Tuna fish, water purification tablets, cookies, and chili con carne.
(c) Bread and butter.
(d) Stew.

4. In Chapter 12, what does Sophie realize was the cause of her fall in the night?
(a) Otto had played a game, tipping her out of the nest.
(b) Hunters had shot at her.
(c) Birds had pecked away at her nest.
(d) Anastasia had knocked her out of the nest.

5. What does Hector tell Sophie he has especially for her in Chapter 17?
(a) A letter for her from Patrice.
(b) A letter for her from her mother.
(c) A letter for her from Mama Evangeline.
(d) A letter for her from her father.

6. In Chapter 16, what is the popular phrase for "word on the street?"
(a) What they say.
(b) Grapevine.
(c) Vox pop.
(d) Sidewalk radio.

7. Why does Sophie hope the other bonobos do not follow her and Otto out of the enclosure in Chapter 14?
(a) She knows the kata-kata will notice if the bonobos are not in the sanctuary any longer.
(b) She hopes they stay to greet her mother when her mother returns.
(c) She knows she and Otto have a better chance of survival alone.
(d) She knows the bonobos will only get sick if they leave the sanctuary.

8. What does Sophie feel accompanies her fear as she rides on the motorbike with Otto in Chapter 17?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Purpose.

9. What kind of animals does Sophie remind herself that bonobos are in Chapter 14?
(a) Predators.
(b) Social foragers.
(c) Pack animals.
(d) Loners.

10. What does Hector tell Sophie the DRC is the richest country in the world in terms of?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Minerals.
(d) Animals.

11. In Chapter 12, what is one of the fruits Sophie feeds herself and Otto?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Apples.
(c) Bananas.
(d) Papayas.

12. In Chapter 16, what valuable information does Sophie give to the old man who runs that school that will likely aid his and the boys' survival?
(a) The location of the manioc field she passed.
(b) The location of clean water nearby.
(c) The location of the rebel soldiers' camp.
(d) The directions to the U.N. headquarters.

13. In Chapter 18, what creature do Sophie and Otto stumble across as they make their way to the river?
(a) A Nile Monitor.
(b) A large crocodile.
(c) A boa constrictor.
(d) A hippopotamus.

14. In Chapter 16, what are the old man's parting words for Sophie regarding Otto?
(a) Sell him for food.
(b) Protect him always.
(c) People first.
(d) You will have to give him up one way or another.

15. What is the title of Part V of the book?
(a) Otto bows out.
(b) Mbandaka.
(c) The Hunted.
(d) Everything is Raining.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, who makes a sleeping nest of branches and leaves for Sophie?

2. Why does Sophie think disgustedly that humans eating bonobos is nearly cannibilism?

3. In Chapter 12, how does Sophie get an idea for the hierarchy in the bonobo group?

4. In Chapter 15, what does Sophie noticing the bonobos doing that is very much out of the ordinary?

5. What is the man's name who takes Sophie up the Congo River on his boat?

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