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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. The Prices make it look like Rachel is engaged to whom?
(a) Anatole
(b) Chief Ndu
(c) Pascal
(d) Eeban Axelroot

2. According to Ruth May, who is last in the family?
(a) Leah
(b) Adah
(c) Ruth May
(d) Mother

3. Who does Rachel think Brother Fowles looks like?
(a) Her grandfather
(b) Anatole
(c) Richard Nixon
(d) Santa Claus

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

5. What does the old woman give to Mother?
(a) A mirror
(b) A beaded necklace
(c) A carved okapi
(d) A picture of her daughters

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Leah learning?

2. What is the safe place that Ruth May thinks of in case she dies?

3. Where is Orleanna when she listens to the Congressional hearings?

4. What does Leah begin to wonder?

5. What does Nelson say is on the chicken house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do you think Adah begins to speak after Ruth May's death when she chose to remain silent before it?

3. What do you think Kingsolver means when she has the woman in the market say that there has never been a village past Bulungu and that she doesn't know of anywhere called Kilanga?

4. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

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

6. Why do you think Adah says that the loss of life isn't always unwelcome?

7. What happens during the big hunt?

8. What does Nelson give to Ruth May? What does he tell her to do with it?

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

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