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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 Axelroot tell Rachel?
(a) Patrice Lumumba is going to die
(b) He loves her
(c) Chief Ndu is going to be replaced
(d) He's going to help the family escape

2. Who has not changed in the Congo?
(a) Orleanna
(b) Nathan
(c) Rachel
(d) Adah

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

4. What is Leah learning?
(a) Bow hunting
(b) Cooking
(c) Basket weaving
(d) Mathematics

5. Why do the mother and daughters want to go back to Kilanga?
(a) To put a grave marker up for the youngest daughter
(b) To kill the man who killed the youngest daughter
(c) To look for the things that they left behind
(d) To find their father

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family member refuses to take any responsibility for what happened to Ruth May?

2. What new name was the Congo given?

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

4. In Book 6, where do Leah and Anatole live?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

7. What happens during the big hunt?

8. 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?

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

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

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