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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. What does Sophie take with her from the U.N. station when she sneaks away with Otto?
(a) Helmets.
(b) Guns.
(c) Money.
(d) Rations and iodine.

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

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) A knife and a length of rope.
(c) Money and a gun.
(d) Meat and soda.

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

5. 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 has a lot of food on the boat.
(b) He is singing a song she knows from childhood.
(c) He has other young girls on the boat and they look relaxed.
(d) He has his son with him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 16, what does Sophie take from the abandoned village besides food that will help her on her journey?

3. In Chapter 14, why does Songololo shriek so joyfully as she escapes with Sophie and Otto?

4. What does Hector tell Sophie he has especially for her in Chapter 17?

5. What does the first U.N. guard tell Sophie when she finally reaches the U.N. station in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 15, who saves Sophie and the bonobos from the hunter, and how do the bonobos react to the savior afterwards?

2. In Chapter 18, why does Sophie select Wello as a probable good choice to take her up the river?

3. In Chapter 17, who helps Sophie get across the stream of people to where the U.N. has its headquarters?

4. In Chapter 21, what does Sophie decide is her and Otto's best chance for survival after Otto is caught in a trapper's snare?

5. In Chapter 12, what does Sophie watch the bonobos do and attempt to mimic to try to stay dry when it rains?

6. In Chapter 17, what does Sophie's mother's letter to her say?

7. In Chapter 17, why does Sophie surmise some of the people crowding the airport are dressed in fine clothes even though they are fleeing violence?

8. In Chapter 17, what changes Sophie's mind about leaving Otto in the Congo and taking a U.N. transport to the U.S.?

9. What does the old man at the school and AIDS clinic tell Sophie about how the rebels select boys to fill out their ranks?

10. In Chapter 12, why does Sophie find herself falling towards the ground in the middle of the night?

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