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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tata Ndu want from the Prices?
(a) To marry Rachel
(b) For the family to leave
(c) Their chickens
(d) Nathan's blessing

2. What does Leah begin to wonder?
(a) If Eeban Axelroot is selling diamonds
(b) If Adah can care for the chickens
(c) If her father is wrong to keep them in the Congo
(d) If Pascal likes her

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

4. For what does Adah think that Mother waits?
(a) Forgiveness
(b) Hope
(c) Trust
(d) Love

5. What does the old woman give to Mother?
(a) A picture of her daughters
(b) A beaded necklace
(c) A carved okapi
(d) A mirror

6. Who is the last of Leah and Anatole's children?
(a) Pascal
(b) Patrice
(c) Martin-Lothaire
(d) Nataniel

7. What does Anatole tell Leah not to say?
(a) That she hates Africa
(b) That she loves him
(c) That she'll go with him to Leopoldville
(d) That she wants to go home

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

9. What is the safe place that Ruth May thinks of in case she dies?
(a) Georgia
(b) Being at her grandmother's
(c) Her bed
(d) A green mamba in the trees

10. What does Anatole find in his bed before the big hunt?
(a) A scorpion
(b) A knife
(c) A lion cub
(d) A green mamba

11. How old is Rachel on her birthday?
(a) 23
(b) 17
(c) 19
(d) 14

12. Who gets left behind as the family flees?
(a) Rachel
(b) Adah
(c) Ruth May
(d) Nelson

13. Where does Orleanna put Ruth May's body?
(a) The dining room table
(b) Her bed
(c) The hammock
(d) The couch

14. How did Orleanna stay alive after Ruth May's death?
(a) Desire
(b) Necessity
(c) Will
(d) Instinct

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel choose to save from the house?

2. Who does Rachel think Brother Fowles looks like?

3. Why can't the mother and daughters go to Kilanga?

4. How long does Ruth May stay in bed?

5. The way that Nathan pronounces "Bangala" makes the word mean what?

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