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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orleanna's husband did what as an occupation?
(a) Developer
(b) Baptist minister
(c) Small business owner
(d) Diamond smuggler

2. What does Orleanna make for the picnic at Easter?
(a) Potato salad
(b) Fried chicken
(c) Prime rib
(d) Pork ribs

3. What toy of Ruth May's disappears?
(a) Soccer ball
(b) Sock monkey
(c) Stuffed dog
(d) Barbie doll

4. Who is the first of the Prices to interact with the village children?
(a) Rachel
(b) Adah
(c) Ruth May
(d) Leah

5. Who shows up at the Price's in January?
(a) Chief Mwanza
(b) Nathan's brother Ted
(c) Mama Tataba
(d) The Underdowns

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pounds of luggage per person were the Prices allowed on the plane?

2. Mama Tataba says that Nathan should do what in the garden?

3. What do most of the girls Leah's age have in the Congo?

4. What does Nelson tell Ruth May to say instead of "snake?"

5. When the family arrives in the village, what is the first thing Nathan Price does?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orleanna remember about Africa in Book 1?

2. Why does Mama Tataba quit working for the Prices? Do you agree with her decision?

3. What is the Price house like? How is it different than other houses in the village?

4. Orleanna says that her journey in Africa came to a bad end in Book 1. What do you think will happen that will make Orleanna's journey end badly?

5. Book 2 opens with a startling revelation about the Price family. What does the Orleanna say is going to happen to the family? What do you think will happen in the rest of the book to make this come true?

6. Why do you think that Adah chooses not to speak?

7. How does the relationship between the Price girls and the village children change in Book 2?

8. What responsibilities to the girls have when mother is in bed? Does Nathan make the situation easier or harder on them?

9. How does Orleanna survive in the Congo amid all the hard work?

10. Who is Mama Tataba? What does she try to help Nathan with? What does he do with her advice?

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