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

2. Where did Orleanna meet Nathan?
(a) At a friend's home
(b) In college
(c) In high school
(d) At a tent revival

3. What do the local women feed their families?
(a) Steak
(b) Tufu
(c) Tomatoes
(d) Fufu

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

5. What is the parrot's name that was left by Brother Fowles?
(a) Shadrach
(b) Isaiah
(c) Polly
(d) Methuselah

Short Answer Questions

1. Who warns people away from Nathan's church?

2. Orleanna was a child of what era?

3. What are sandals made of in Kilanga?

4. What punishment does their father give the Price girls?

5. What does Anatole send after having dinner with the Prices?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Adah different than the rest of her family?

2. Why does Orleanna go to the Congo? With whom does she go?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What does Book 2 tell us about Nathan and his relationship to the family?

8. 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?

9. In Book 1, Rachel feels like the family is "in for it" in the Congo. Why do you think that Rachel feels this way?

10. What is Leah's relationship with her father like in Book 1?

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