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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what shocking news does Sophie learn that has all the sanctuary workers on edge?
(a) People are no longer allowed to go up the river on boats.
(b) The president has been killed.
(c) The government has ordered that all bonobos be moved out of the country.
(d) There is no more gasoline anywhere in the country.

2. What does the term "white weapons" refer to?
(a) Weapons that were devised by white people.
(b) Weapons that were imported from majority-white countries.
(c) Weapons that kill silently like machetes, clubs, and knives.
(d) Weapons that are the color white.

3. In Chapter 4, what does the chef do for Sophie that she really appreciates?
(a) Makes her vegetarian food.
(b) Makes her some of her favorite oatmeal.
(c) Makes some American dishes for her.
(d) Makes her gluten-free food.

4. Why does Sophie have so much cash on her person in Chapter 1?
(a) Her father had given her spending money before she left America.
(b) Her American friends had given her money to buy them interesting notebooks from the DRC.
(c) She had gone into town to buy new clothes.
(d) Her mother had given her the week's grocery money.

5. About how many people live in Kinshasa?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 50 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Patrice tell Sophie about where the safest place to be in the country is if a war starts?

2. In Chapter 8, what is one sign of friendship a bonobo exhibits towards others?

3. What does Sophie's mother tell her she must do in Chapter 2 in order to take care of the animal she bought from the smuggler on the first night?

4. In Chapter 7, why does Sophie jump out of the U.N. van?

5. In Chapter 11, what food does Sophie have that she shares with the bonobos?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what does Sophie realizes she is going to need to get in order to survive?

2. Why do the U.N. staff refuse to let Sophie take Otto with her on her flight out of the Congo?

3. In Chapter 9, what does Sophie think changes Anastasia's mind about charging her and hurting her?

4. In Chapter 5, what does Sophie say about her parents' marriage and why it fell apart?

5. What was the only nice thing Sophie's fellow American students had ever said to her in her school days there?

6. In Chapter 1, why does Sophie pay the man who has the baby bonobo to take the bonobo home with her?

7. Why does Sophie explain she finds it fitting that in one of the Congo's languages, Lingala, yesterday and tomorrow are the same word?

8. In Chapter 1, what does Clement tell Sophie about how her mother will react when she finds out Sophie bought the bonobo?

9. In Chapter 8, what does Sophie remember about the difference between young bonobos and adult bonobos?

10. In Chapter 9, what does Sophie remember to do when a small group of foraging bonobos appear?

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