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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Orleanna do with the furniture?
(a) Gives it away
(b) Burns it
(c) Puts it in front of the door to keep Nathan out
(d) Breaks it

3. What does Nathan preach about in the boat?
(a) The Ten Commandments
(b) Revelations
(c) The birth of Jesus
(d) The Eygptians and the plagues

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

5. What does Ruth May have to do to get her spirit in the bone, according to Nelson?
(a) Breath in the hole
(b) Step on it
(c) Will her spirit into it
(d) Hold it to her heart

6. When was the last time that the mother and her three daughters were all together?
(a) The oldest child's 50th birthday
(b) One of the daughter's college graduation
(c) The day that the father was buried
(d) The death of the youngest child

7. What is the name of the hotel that Rachel owns?
(a) Hibiscus
(b) Hotel de Africa
(c) African Queen
(d) Equatorial

8. Why do the mother and daughters want to go back to Kilanga?
(a) To look for the things that they left behind
(b) To kill the man who killed the youngest daughter
(c) To put a grave marker up for the youngest daughter
(d) To find their father

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

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

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

12. What kind of person does Orleanna think that Nathan is?
(a) The type to love other unconditionally
(b) The type that stands still
(c) The type to appreciate differences
(d) The type to walk away

13. According to Ruth May, who is last in the family?
(a) Adah
(b) Ruth May
(c) Leah
(d) Mother

14. Which baby does Orleanna think overtakes the mother?
(a) The neediest
(b) The twins
(c) The first
(d) The last

15. The way that Nathan pronounces "Bangala" makes the word mean what?
(a) Death
(b) The poisonwood tree
(c) Crocodile
(d) Snake

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leah wish that she could give to her father?

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

3. Where does Adah go to school?

4. Where is Orleanna when she listens to the Congressional hearings?

5. Who does Rachel think is the cause of all the problems?

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