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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. What does Anatole send after having dinner with the Prices?
(a) A basket of food
(b) A card
(c) A chicken
(d) A boy named Nelson

2. When did everything change in the Congo, according to Orleanna?
(a) The day that the church burned
(b) The day that the river flooded
(c) The day that Adah began to speak
(d) The day that they lost the parrot and Mama Tataba

3. The Prices are going to serve in which town?
(a) Uganda
(b) Kuhna
(c) Kilanga
(d) Underdown

4. What are the Prices told is going to happen in the Congo?
(a) A feast
(b) Independence from Belgium
(c) The funeral of the president
(d) The Olympics

5. What does Nathan Price do with the hills that Mama Tataba made in the garden?
(a) Plants seed in them
(b) Levels them out
(c) Ignores them
(d) Uses them as a model for his own hills

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson does Nathan Price give Leah about why God gave people seeds?

2. What do the local women feed their families?

3. Who is the chief of Kilanga?

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

5. Adah doesn't do which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was life like in the Congo for Orleanna?

5. Who is Anatole? Why is Nathan angry with Anatole?

6. How did Orleanna meet Nathan? How did their relationship change?

7. What are some of the superstitions that the villagers have? Why do you think they have these superstitions?

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

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

10. 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?

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