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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who returns from a hiding place in the swamp, badly beaten, and knocks on the door of Azaro's home?
(a) The photographer.
(b) A construction worker.
(c) The landlord.
(d) One of the thugs.

2. The police officer's home has several spirits and even more come; then, during a huge storm the house catches on fire from what?
(a) A dropped match.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Cooking fire embers.
(d) Thrown torch from upset rioters.

3. After escaping kidnappers by cutting a hole in the bag to get out, Azaro is lost in the forest. Who helps guide him home?
(a) A two-legged dog.
(b) The king.
(c) A spirit child.
(d) His mother.

4. Who promises to bring poison for the rats on the night Azaro sees himself fly over his parents and through the roof?
(a) The king.
(b) The photographer.
(c) The landlord.
(d) The bar owner.

5. What does Azaro view as a spirit box?
(a) The construction site work truck.
(b) The gramophone machine.
(c) Madame Koto's cash register.
(d) The van.

6. After awakening in the building where he was bathed and fed, Azaro returns to the bar where Madame Koto asks him why he touched her what?
(a) Girls.
(b) Snails.
(c) Money.
(d) Food.

7. What does Azaro do after the spirit girl in the bar keeps blowing out the match every time he lights it for his customer?
(a) He yelled at the girl.
(b) He turned away from the spirit to light the match.
(c) He covered the match with his hand.
(d) He moved to the other end of the bar.

8. Even though Azaro's father is working and his mother sells wares, what are they short of at home?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

9. Who harasses Azaro's mother at the market?
(a) The children.
(b) The thugs.
(c) The landlord.
(d) Madame Koto.

10. After the thugs declare that they will bring Koto more business since she supported them, what do they promise to get her for the bar?
(a) Running Water.
(b) Better Lighting.
(c) More Palm Wine.
(d) Electricity.

11. Who do the villagers fear is dead the morning after the violent clash with the thugs?
(a) Azaro.
(b) The photographer.
(c) The landlord.
(d) Madame Koto.

12. Azaro's father gets into arguments and fights with the prostitutes and a few men over what?
(a) Wine.
(b) Politics.
(c) Money.
(d) Land.

13. Looking through the mask everything becomes _______.
(a) Bright.
(b) Distorted.
(c) Smaller.
(d) Dark.

14. In the spirit world, what is described as always hungry?
(a) The boy.
(b) The river.
(c) The king.
(d) The road.

15. Azaro runs from the blind man to the construction site where he sees a pit open up and swallow workers and what man?
(a) One of his father's employers.
(b) The creditor that took their table.
(c) One of the thugs that harassed his mother.
(d) A white man giving orders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Azaro's family fears the other villagers are angry at them because someone had _________________.

2. Politicians in a van pass out what to the crowd?

3. When Azaro refuses to follow the requester into the spirit world, what is he told his spirit friends will send next for him?

4. Who tells Azaro a story about white people coming to the land?

5. Who is in the van with the politicians, besides the thugs?

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