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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. What does Anatole have on his face?
2. How old are Leah and Adah on their birthday?
3. Who shows up at the Price's in January?
4. What does Methuselah do that makes Nathan angry?
5. Why do people keep staring at Rachel?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Mama Tataba? What does she try to help Nathan with? What does he do with her advice?
2. How does the relationship between the Price girls and the village children change in Book 2?
3. 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?
4. What was life like in the Congo for Orleanna?
5. Why do the Underdowns come to Kilanga? How does Nathan respond?
6. What is the Verse? Why do the girls get the Verse? Who is really to blame?
7. What does Rachel think about the Congo on the day of the church picnic? How is she different than the people in the Congo?
8. Why does Orleanna go to the Congo? With whom does she go?
9. Why do you think Orleanna stays with Nathan despite the ways that he treats her?
10. Who is Anatole? Why is Nathan angry with Anatole?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Prices change during their time in the Congo. Discuss how the changes affect the family, including:
1) Which character do you think changed the most? How did this character change?
2) Which character changed the least? In what ways does the character remain the same?
3) How does the family itself change from the beginning of the book to the end?
Essay Topic 2
Kingsolver brings the United States into the novel in several different ways. What role did the United States play in the Congo at a national and village level? What does Kingsolver seem to think about the United States' role in the events in the Congo? Do you think the United States should have been involved in the Congo?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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