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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 many people think of country folk?
(a) That they are civilized and coarse.
(b) That they are strong.
(c) That they are unhealthy.
(d) That they are uncivilized and coarse.

2. What does Camara love to do when Lansana's twin shows up in Tindican?
(a) Eat with him.
(b) Walk with him.
(c) Listen to his stories.
(d) Talk to him.

3. Why doesn't Camara's family member want to get too far ahead of the rest of the reapers?
(a) Because he's too lazy.
(b) Because he doesn't want them to feel bad.
(c) Because he's tired.
(d) Because he doesn't want them to take advantage of him.

4. Why is the snake which Camara finds special?
(a) Because it is the guiding spirit of his father.
(b) Because it is the guiding spirit of his uncle.
(c) Because it is the guiding spirit of the house.
(d) Because it is the guiding spirit of his mother.

5. What do the reapers use to do their work?
(a) Axes.
(b) Spirits.
(c) Knives.
(d) Sickles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does young Camara enjoy doing from the corner of the workshop?

2. Why do all the apprentices and workers in the blacksmith shop turn their attention to the production of the trinket?

3. What do Camara and his friends play with while he's in Tindican?

4. What does Camara think about country people?

5. Camara's mother's presence maintains what during meal times?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does young Camara find his friends in Tindican, and what do they do?

2. What happens when Camara's friend Kouyate Karmoko says that he's had enough after a particularly cruel beating?

3. One day, Camara finds a little black snake with a strikingly marked body. What is special about this snake?

4. How is the special black snake involved with Camara's father's gold work?

5. What does the praise-singer who acts as a middle man between the woman with the gold and Camara's father do in the workshop?

6. What does Camara's grandmother's hut look like?

7. Describe the behavior of Camara's school teacher in the French school he attended as a child.

8. What do you know about Tindican? Where is it located, and how does Camara get there? What is special about the trip?

9. Why does Camara's father always do the gold work himself, never leaving it to the apprentices or other workers?

10. What do the reapers do while they work on the fields, and how is their relationship?

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