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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 makes Mother get up?
(a) Adah disappears
(b) Nathan tells her to
(c) Rachel burns an omelet
(d) Ruth May needs a push on the swing

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

3. What does Adah study in her work?
(a) Insects
(b) Viruses
(c) Water supplies
(d) Funeral customs

4. What never occurred to Orleanna before Ruth May died?
(a) To trust the people of Kilanga
(b) To leave Nathan because of being unhappy with him
(c) To stay in the Congo
(d) To pay off Eeban Axelroot to take her home

5. What does Orleanna do when she reaches the edge of the village?
(a) Cries
(b) Screams at Nathan
(c) Stands and looks back
(d) Keeps walking

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leah begin to wonder?

2. The Prices make it look like Rachel is engaged to whom?

3. Who has not changed in the Congo?

4. Who does Rachel think Brother Fowles looks like?

5. What is Leah learning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Rachel in her life? Do you think she is happy?

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

4. What happens to Ruth May at the end of Book 4? What happens after this event?

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

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

7. What regrets does Orleanna voice about her family and the situation in the Congo?

8. Who is Brother Fowles? How is he different from Nathan?

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

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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