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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 73 - 144).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Konga's last name?
(a) Wanjika.
(b) Kojil.
(c) Faraina.
(d) Holika.

2. Why will no one touch the village "madman" in Part I?
(a) He has skin lesions.
(b) He has promised certain death to anyone that does.
(c) They think they will be cursed if they do.
(d) He never comes to the village, so they never see him.

3. How many people does Thula's father tell her live in America, approximately?
(a) 7,000.
(b) 300,000,000.
(c) 120,000,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. What does the newspaperman suggest to Bongo about travel?
(a) He wants them all to go to Egypt.
(b) He wants them to go to the big lake.
(c) He wants them all to go to America.
(d) He wants to come to Kosawa with Bongo and the others.

5. What does Konga tell the men about the ones who try to save the village and the ones who try to destroy it?
(a) They are from different countries.
(b) They are always poor.
(c) They are always rich.
(d) They are the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raised Bongo's father?

2. Who does Bongo's girlfriend leave him for?

3. Who is the journalist The Sick One sends the men to?

4. Where do the oil company laborers live?

5. Who is the first age-mate, and Lukasa's son, that dies that Thula and her friends really take notice of?

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