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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one reason that Sophie trusts the old man she asks to take her and Otto up the Congo River on his boat?
(a) He is singing a song she knows from childhood.
(b) He has a lot of food on the boat.
(c) He has his son with him.
(d) He has other young girls on the boat and they look relaxed.

3. In Chapter 16, what does the old man at the school give to Sophie when she and Otto eventually leave?
(a) Garlic-roasted manioc and bottles of well water.
(b) Money and a gun.
(c) A knife and a length of rope.
(d) Meat and soda.

4. In Chapter 15, what does Sophie noticing the bonobos doing that is very much out of the ordinary?
(a) Fighting with each other.
(b) Sharing their food with each other.
(c) Following her as she makes her way onward to find her mother.
(d) Teasing each other.

5. In Chapter 12, who makes a sleeping nest of branches and leaves for Sophie?
(a) Mushie.
(b) Otto.
(c) Banalia.
(d) Songololo.

6. In Chapter 16, what does Otto start doing to the boys at the school that the boys think is funny?
(a) Pulling on their toes.
(b) Playing tricks on them.
(c) Feeding them.
(d) Grooming them.

7. What is the title of Part IV of the book?
(a) What Remained Outside.
(b) The Bonobos Win.
(c) War Goes On.
(d) My Mother Finds Me.

8. During her second week in the enclosure, what does Sophie start to eat?
(a) Ants.
(b) Tree bark.
(c) Caterpillars.
(d) Giant green gourds that ripen and fall.

9. Which country does Hector tell Sophie is the biggest exporter of coltan, diamonds, and gold?
(a) The DRC.
(b) Rwanda.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Malawi.

10. What is the term Sophie uses to mean "walking dead" in Chapter 20?
(a) Keta angelahara.
(b) Bapfuye buhagazi.
(c) Papauae fulti.
(d) Bapfuye alreda.

11. In Chapter 16, what does Sophie take from the abandoned village besides food that will help her on her journey?
(a) Working IVs.
(b) Pain killers.
(c) Anti-diarrhea medication.
(d) Clean water from the pump.

12. 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.

13. What does the second U.N. guard tell Sophie in Chapter 17?
(a) They can probably work something out to help her.
(b) They can help her because her father is a very rich and persistent man.
(c) If she can pay them, they can help her.
(d) They can help her as long as she has her own food and water.

14. In Chapter 18, what does Sophie find on her and Otto after being submerged in water?
(a) Worms.
(b) Leeches.
(c) Ticks.
(d) Snakes.

15. In Chapter 12, what awakens Sophie with a start from her sleep?
(a) The sound of gunshots.
(b) Otto's cries of pain.
(c) Her falling out of her nest.
(d) The calls of lions.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what creature do Sophie and Otto stumble across as they make their way to the river?

2. What is the word for a particular kind of boat common on the Congo River?

3. What does Hector tell Sophie the DRC is the richest country in the world in terms of?

4. In Chapter 16, what does the man at the school for boys give Sophie to drink at first?

5. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie think about her situation compared to that of the crowds at the airport?

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