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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. How many meals does Orleanna feed her family in the Congo?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 3
2. Why does Orleanna stay with her husband?
(a) Because she doesn't have the money to leave
(b) Because she thinks that he is a great husband
(c) Because it is what she can do
(d) Because he loves her
3. What are the Prices told is going to happen in the Congo?
(a) The Olympics
(b) The funeral of the president
(c) Independence from Belgium
(d) A feast
4. What does Orleanna make for the picnic at Easter?
(a) Fried chicken
(b) Pork ribs
(c) Potato salad
(d) Prime rib
5. What happens after the Independence in the Price household?
(a) Their mirror is stolen
(b) Mother and Ruth May get sick
(c) One of the family dies
(d) Nathan decides to leave the Congo
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the new Prime Minister of the Congo?
2. How old was Orleanna when she met Nathan?
3. Why does Mother cry on Rachel's birthday?
4. How much money does the family receive as a stipend each month?
5. What does Nathan break?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens in Book 2 that makes the Price family and the villagers think that Adah has died? What really happened?
2. What does Nathan want to happen on the day of the church picnic? Does this happen? Why or why not?
3. What is the Price house like? How is it different than other houses in the village?
4. Who does Ruth May think the Congolese are in Book 1? Who are the white people that Ruth May says are now in the Congo?
5. Why does Mama Tataba quit working for the Prices? Do you agree with her decision?
6. What is Leah's relationship with her father like in Book 1?
7. Why does Adah think that church should be called the "Church of the Lost Cause." What does Nathan think about this?
8. What are some of the superstitions that the villagers have? Why do you think they have these superstitions?
9. What does Nathan Price's opinion of women seem to be based on the events and narration in Book 1?
10. What is the Verse? Why do the girls get the Verse? Who is really to blame?
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