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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 do Wello and Sophie always eat for breakfast and lunch on the boat?
(a) Fresh breadfruit.
(b) Papaya.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Cassava bread and fish wrapped in banana leaf.

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

3. When Sophie goes looking for the two young bonobos, what does she find?
(a) Their two dead bodies.
(b) People surrounding a fire cooking the bonobos for their meat.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A trap that the bonobos have been caught in.

4. In Chapter 12, what does Otto develop that worries Sophie?
(a) A raspy cough.
(b) Diarrhea.
(c) Vomiting.
(d) A skin rash.

5. What is Sophie's plan to try to lose the rest of the bonobos as she and Otto press on with their journey?
(a) To try to fight them all off physically herself.
(b) To give them sleeping pills.
(c) To cause a distraction.
(d) To gather so much food for them they will not leave the stockpile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sophie hope the other bonobos do not follow her and Otto out of the enclosure in Chapter 14?

2. Which country does Hector tell Sophie is the biggest exporter of coltan, diamonds, and gold?

3. What does Sophie take with her from the U.N. station when she sneaks away with Otto?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 15, why does Sophie decide she must leave all the bonobos in the jungle besides Otto as she goes off to find her mother?

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

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

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 18, how does Sophie plan to try to reach her mother?

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

8. In Chapter 20, how does Sophie feel after she and Otto get off Wello's boat?

9. In Chapter 14, how does Sophie realize the electrified fence is no longer on?

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

(see the answer keys)

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