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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to families in Nathan's congregation that lose a child?
(a) They go back to ancestor worship
(b) They adopt another baby
(c) They call on Nathan for advice
(d) They stay in the church

2. What is the parrot's name that was left by Brother Fowles?
(a) Shadrach
(b) Polly
(c) Isaiah
(d) Methuselah

3. What happens to Nathan in the war?
(a) He is injured and his company dies
(b) He saves a Congressman's son
(c) He become a chaplain
(d) He goes to Canada to avoid the draft

4. What lesson does Nathan Price give Leah about why God gave people seeds?
(a) God helps those who help themselves
(b) God created the earth
(c) God blesses the faithful
(d) God gives seeds to sustain people

5. When did Nathan start hitting Orleanna?
(a) On their honeymoon
(b) When he came back from his first missionary post
(c) When they reached the Congo
(d) When she was pregnant with Rachel

6. Who is put in charge of the chickens?
(a) Leah
(b) Adah
(c) Ruth May
(d) Rachel

7. What do most of the girls Leah's age have in the Congo?
(a) Pets
(b) Scars
(c) Babies
(d) Necklaces

8. What does Orleanna now look for in her daughters?
(a) Happiness
(b) Peace
(c) Illness
(d) Sadness

9. Where did Orleanna meet Nathan?
(a) At a friend's home
(b) In college
(c) At a tent revival
(d) In high school

10. What happens after the Independence in the Price household?
(a) Their mirror is stolen
(b) One of the family dies
(c) Nathan decides to leave the Congo
(d) Mother and Ruth May get sick

11. Who shows up at the Price's in January?
(a) Nathan's brother Ted
(b) Mama Tataba
(c) Chief Mwanza
(d) The Underdowns

12. What does Nathan Price encounter in the garden?
(a) Poisonwood
(b) An okapi
(c) Sticker weed
(d) A cobra

13. For what does Mother begin to pray?
(a) That God will help her speak to the villagers
(b) That God will make the villagers come to the church
(c) Tht God will send someone to haul water for her
(d) That God will deliver the family out of the Congo in one piece

14. What happens after Nathan Price gives a blessing at the feast?
(a) The people begin to sing hymns
(b) Everyone eats
(c) The people begin to leave
(d) A chicken gets loose in the building

15. How old was Orleanna when she met Nathan?
(a) 12
(b) 21
(c) 17
(d) 30

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Price daughter is the youngest?

2. How far did Orleanna and the family have to carry water?

3. Orleanna's journey in Africa come to what kind of end?

4. Who becomes Leah's first friend in the Congo

5. What does Leah picture as her future career?

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