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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) Porridge.
(b) Papaya.
(c) Fresh breadfruit.
(d) Cassava bread and fish wrapped in banana leaf.

2. What question does Hector, the U.N. guard, ask Sophie twice in Chapter 17?
(a) Whether she has any money.
(b) Whether she has a passport or papers.
(c) When she was originally supposed to leave Congo.
(d) What her father does for a living.

3. In Chapter 17, what do the people in the crowd take from Sophie?
(a) Her motorbike and Otto.
(b) Her money.
(c) Her clean water.
(d) Her duffel bag.

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

5. In Chapter 18, what creature do Sophie and Otto stumble across as they make their way to the river?
(a) A Nile Monitor.
(b) A hippopotamus.
(c) A boa constrictor.
(d) A large crocodile.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, what does the man who Sophie asks to take her up the Congo River ask her for as payment?

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

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

4. What does Hector tell Sophie the U.N. did with the two young bonobos that were left there?

5. In Chapter 16, what does the sign say that Sophie sees outside of the old colonial house she comes across?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 14, what are some of the signs that the bonobos are stressed and tired?

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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