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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 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 father.
(c) A letter for her from Mama Evangeline.
(d) A letter for her from her mother.

2. In Chapter 16, what does the sign say that Sophie sees outside of the old colonial house she comes across?
(a) Help.
(b) Toxic!
(c) Quarantine.
(d) SIDA.

3. 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 his son with him.
(c) He has a lot of food on the boat.
(d) He has other young girls on the boat and they look relaxed.

4. In Chapter 15, who saves Sophie and the bonobos from a hunter?
(a) Patrice.
(b) Clement.
(c) Pweto.
(d) Sophie's mother.

5. In Chapter 12, why do some of the bonobos gravitate towards Sophie in the rain?
(a) She has a poncho she uses as an umbrella for them.
(b) She has an umbrella.
(c) She has sweaters for all of them.
(d) She has a tent she has pitched.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Hector, the U.N. guard, ask Sophie twice in Chapter 17?

2. When Sophie goes looking for the two young bonobos, what does she find?

3. Which bonobo is killed by a kata-kata when Sophie tries to escape the sanctuary with them in Chapter 14?

4. What do bonobos often do with each other to help ease tension and anxiety?

5. What kind of vehicle do Sophie and Otto leave the school in in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what is it that alerts the rebels to Sohie's and the bonobos' escape?

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

3. What does Sophie say is the advantage of the fear she feels in Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 14, why does Sophie's plan of escaping from the sanctuary enclosure with just Otto not work?

5. In Chapter 16, why is Sophie so pleased to see abandoned fields of manioc in her travels?

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

7. In Chapter 14, what strikes Sophie about the way the rebels look compared to the way the bonobos in the sanctuary look?

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

9. Why does the first guard Sophie speaks to at the U.N. compound in Chapter 17 turn her away?

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

(see the answer keys)

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