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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. Before the Prices came to the Congo, which daughter was often stared at?
(a) Ruth May
(b) Rachel
(c) Leah
(d) Adah
2. Adah has which condition?
(a) Spinal cord injury
(b) Hemiplegia
(c) Blindness
(d) Polio
3. Who doesn't always take her quinine pills?
(a) Ruth May
(b) Orleanna
(c) Adah
(d) Rachel
4. When did Nathan start hitting Orleanna?
(a) When she was pregnant with Rachel
(b) When they reached the Congo
(c) When he came back from his first missionary post
(d) On their honeymoon
5. What do most of the girls Leah's age have in the Congo?
(a) Pets
(b) Babies
(c) Necklaces
(d) Scars
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is the church supper held?
2. Which Price daughter is the youngest?
3. Who becomes Leah's first friend in the Congo
4. What does Nathan Price do with the hills that Mama Tataba made in the garden?
5. What was the hardest work for Orleanna in the Congo?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the people of the village stare at the Prices? Which family member did people used to stare at? Why do you think this person seems more normal to the villagers than the other family members?
2. How is Adah different than the rest of her family?
3. In Book 1, Orleanna says, "Married to a man who would never love her, she stays his wife because it was what she can do." What do you think she means by this?
4. What happens to Ruth May's sock monkey? How does she feel about this?
5. Why does Adah think that church should be called the "Church of the Lost Cause." What does Nathan think about this?
6. Why do the Underdowns come to Kilanga? How does Nathan respond?
7. What happens to Ruth May in Book 2 as she is spying on the Jimmy Crow boys? What does she discover in the events that take place?
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 does the family bring with them to the Congo? What troubles did they have in getting these things to the Congo? How did they solve the problem?
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