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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nelson thinks what stole Ruth May's soul?
(a) A snake
(b) An owl
(c) A ghost
(d) An ancestor

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

3. Who does Rachel think Brother Fowles looks like?
(a) Richard Nixon
(b) Anatole
(c) Her grandfather
(d) Santa Claus

4. Who does the green mamba bite?
(a) Ruth May
(b) Adah
(c) Leah
(d) Nelson

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

6. What does Rachel choose to save from the house?
(a) The mirror
(b) Adah
(c) Earrings
(d) Her blanket

7. With what illness does Leah become sick?
(a) Cancer
(b) AIDS
(c) Influenza
(d) Malaria

8. Where are the woman and her three children in Book 7?
(a) A restaurant in Africa
(b) Leah's house
(c) Rachel's hotel
(d) A market in Africa

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

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

11. What becomes Orleanna's only purpose after Ruth May's death?
(a) Quietness
(b) Meditation
(c) Forgiveness
(d) Motion

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

13. What does Orleanna do when she reaches the edge of the village?
(a) Screams at Nathan
(b) Keeps walking
(c) Cries
(d) Stands and looks back

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anatole mourn for on January 17?

2. What does Leah begin to wonder?

3. The Prices make it look like Rachel is engaged to whom?

4. What does the chapter imply that Ruth May has become?

5. Where does Adah go to school?

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