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

2. How old is Rachel on her birthday?
(a) 14
(b) 23
(c) 19
(d) 17

3. For what does Adah think that Mother waits?
(a) Forgiveness
(b) Love
(c) Trust
(d) Hope

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

5. What does Leah begin to wonder?
(a) If Pascal likes her
(b) If her father is wrong to keep them in the Congo
(c) If Eeban Axelroot is selling diamonds
(d) If Adah can care for the chickens

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes everyone run to the river?

2. Who does Rachel think is the cause of all the problems?

3. What does Mother promise to help Rachel learn to do?

4. Who has not changed in the Congo?

5. What does Axelroot tell Rachel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think that Leah now feels uncomfortable in the United States?

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

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

4. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. What does Tata Ndu want from the family in Book 3? How does the family respond?

10. What happened to Patrice Lumumba?

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