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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the church supper held?
2. What does the chief of the village want Nathan to say is acceptable?
3. What does Mama Mwanza bring the family?
4. What is the parrot's name that was left by Brother Fowles?
5. What punishment does their father give the Price girls?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Verse? Why do the girls get the Verse? Who is really to blame?
2. In Book 1, Orleanna says, "Married to a man who would never love her, she stays his wife because it was what she can do." What do you think she means by this?
3. What does Orleanna remember about Africa in Book 1?
4. Why do the people of the village stare at the Prices? Which family member did people used to stare at? Why do you think this person seems more normal to the villagers than the other family members?
5. Who is Mama Tataba? What does she try to help Nathan with? What does he do with her advice?
6. Who is Nelson? Why does Anatole send Nelson to live with the Prices?
7. In Book 1, Rachel feels like the family is "in for it" in the Congo. Why do you think that Rachel feels this way?
8. Why does Adah think that church should be called the "Church of the Lost Cause." What does Nathan think about this?
9. What happens when the family first arrives in the Congo?
10. What responsibilities to the girls have when mother is in bed? Does Nathan make the situation easier or harder on them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nathan Price is the only character from the Price family that does not narrate in the novel. Why do you think he does not have a voice in the novel? What effect does this have on the reader's perception of him and the events of the novel? What does Nathan represent or symbolize in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Children are often noted as being more observant. Do you think Ruth May was more observant than other members of her family? What things did she see that her other family members did not? Do you think that her curious nature got her into trouble?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the religions, cultures, and other differences between the Congo and the United States. Which characters in the novel seem to bridge these differences? Which ones do not?
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