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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the family arrives, the country is on the brink of what?
(a) A thunderstorm
(b) A drought
(c) A civil war
(d) A bomb going off

2. When is Rachel's birthday?
(a) November
(b) May
(c) January
(d) August

3. What do the girls do in the mornings?
(a) Play
(b) Cooking
(c) Cleaning
(d) Homework

4. What does Orleanna sometimes see on her walks in the Congo?
(a) Snakes
(b) Elephants
(c) Lions
(d) Crocodiles

5. Adah doesn't do which of the following?
(a) Hear
(b) See
(c) Smell
(d) Speak

6. What was the hardest work for Orleanna in the Congo?
(a) Cooking and cleaning for the family
(b) Deciding each day to stay with her family
(c) Hauling the water to the kitchen
(d) Watching over her four daughters

7. Who becomes Leah's first friend in the Congo
(a) Ndu
(b) Mama Tataba
(c) Eeban Axelroot
(d) Pascal

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

9. What does the chief of the village want Nathan to say is acceptable?
(a) Swearing
(b) Smoking a pipe
(c) Having more than one wife
(d) Working on Sundays

10. What do the girls get from Mother for Christmas?
(a) Soap and shampoo
(b) Mirrors
(c) Needlework things
(d) Things to put in their hair

11. Which Price daughter is the youngest?
(a) Leah
(b) Adah
(c) Ruth May
(d) Rachel

12. What do the local women feed their families?
(a) Steak
(b) Tomatoes
(c) Tufu
(d) Fufu

13. Why do the people not want their children to go down to the riverbank?
(a) They believe a spirit lives there
(b) The water carries diseases
(c) A crocodile killed a girl the year before
(d) The current is too strong to swim in

14. What takes up half the day in the Congo?
(a) Caring for the chickens
(b) Praying
(c) Visiting people
(d) Cooking

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The tone of Book 1 is one of what?

2. Why does Adah now think that she and Leah have separate lives even though they are twins?

3. What makes the Price house different than the others in the village?

4. Why does Orleanna stay with her husband?

5. What does the family eat a lot of?

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