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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. Where is Orleanna when she listens to the Congressional hearings?
(a) Kilanga
(b) Atlanta
(c) New York
(d) London

2. What new name was the Congo given?
(a) Kenya
(b) Tanzania
(c) Uganda
(d) Zaire

3. What makes everyone run to the river?
(a) Lions
(b) Ants
(c) Bees
(d) Snakes

4. What is the safe place that Ruth May thinks of in case she dies?
(a) Georgia
(b) Her bed
(c) Being at her grandmother's
(d) A green mamba in the trees

5. What does Leah create controversy over wanting to do?
(a) Preach in the church
(b) Eat ants
(c) Marry Pascal
(d) Participate in the big hunt

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leah kill on the anniversary of Ruth May's death?

2. What does Axelroot tell Rachel?

3. When was the last time that the mother and her three daughters were all together?

4. Where does Orleanna put Ruth May's body?

5. What does Anatole tell Leah not to say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Rachel and Adah learn? From where do they each learn this?

2. What does Anatole find in his hut? What is this a sign of? What happens to Anatole?

3. What does Leah want to do with the men in the village? Who is not happy about this? How does Leah get her way?

4. What living creature invades Kilanga? What do the villagers do?

5. Why does Rachel think that she can't go back to the United States now?

6. Orleanna characterizes Nathan as someone who stands still. What does she mean by this?

7. Where does each of the girls go after Ruth May's death?

8. What does Leah tell Anatole? What does he tell her in return? Why do you think he responds this way?

9. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

10. Why do you think Ruth May chooses a green mamba as the place that she wanted to be when she died?

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