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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Prices make it look like Rachel is engaged to whom?
(a) Pascal
(b) Eeban Axelroot
(c) Chief Ndu
(d) Anatole

5. What happens to Patrice Lumumba?
(a) He goes into hiding for twenty years
(b) He is reinstated as president
(c) He is exile to the United States
(d) He is beaten and killed

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

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

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

9. In Book 6, where do Leah and Anatole live?
(a) Brazil
(b) Zaire
(c) The United States
(d) Angola

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

11. What is Leah learning?
(a) Basket weaving
(b) Cooking
(c) Mathematics
(d) Bow hunting

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

13. 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

14. What do people vote with in the church election?
(a) Pebbles
(b) Paper
(c) Sticks
(d) Their hands

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leah create controversy over wanting to do?

2. What does Tata Ndu want from the Prices?

3. What makes everyone run to the river?

4. What did Ruth May see in Eeban Axelroot's plane?

5. Who has not changed in the Congo?

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