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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leah kill on the anniversary of Ruth May's death?
(a) Nathan Price
(b) An antelope
(c) Tata Kuvudundu
(d) A snake

2. What did Ruth May see in Eeban Axelroot's plane?
(a) Dynomite
(b) Oil
(c) Guns
(d) Diamonds

3. What does the chapter imply that Ruth May has become?
(a) An owl
(b) A green mamba
(c) A ghost
(d) A lion

4. Who has not changed in the Congo?
(a) Nathan
(b) Adah
(c) Rachel
(d) Orleanna

5. What color is inside the green mamba's mouth?
(a) Brown
(b) Blue
(c) Green
(d) Black

6. Where does Adah go to school?
(a) Georgetown University
(b) Emory University
(c) Yale University
(d) University of Florida

7. How much money does the United States provide for loyalty?
(a) One thousand dollars
(b) One billion dollars
(c) One hundred thousand dollars
(d) One million dollars

8. What makes Mother get up?
(a) Nathan tells her to
(b) Adah disappears
(c) Ruth May needs a push on the swing
(d) Rachel burns an omelet

9. What does Adah miss by the end of Book 5?
(a) The old Adah
(b) Nathan Price
(c) Mama Tataba
(d) The Congo

10. In what year does the CIA suggest replacing the Congolese government?
(a) 1940
(b) 1960
(c) 1980
(d) 1920

11. What happens to Anatole in the year after Ruth May's death?
(a) He dies
(b) He is imprisoned
(c) He becomes sick with malaria
(d) He marries Adah

12. Who does Rachel think is the cause of all the problems?
(a) Leah
(b) Anatole
(c) Nathan
(d) Adah

13. What do the girls find when they take Ruth May's bed away from the wall?
(a) Malaria pills
(b) Ruth May's sock monkey
(c) A snake
(d) Spiders

14. What makes everyone run to the river?
(a) Ants
(b) Lions
(c) Bees
(d) Snakes

15. Which family member refuses to take any responsibility for what happened to Ruth May?
(a) Orleanna
(b) Rachel
(c) Adah
(d) Leah

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anatole mourn for on January 17?

2. What is the safe place that Ruth May thinks of in case she dies?

3. What does Adah study in her work?

4. How old is Rachel turning in the beginning of Book 6?

5. When was the last time that the mother and her three daughters were all together?

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