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

2. What does Anatole tell Leah not to say?
(a) That she loves him
(b) That she hates Africa
(c) That she'll go with him to Leopoldville
(d) That she wants to go home

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

4. How much money does the United States provide for loyalty?
(a) One hundred thousand dollars
(b) One billion dollars
(c) One million dollars
(d) One thousand dollars

5. When was the last time that the mother and her three daughters were all together?
(a) The death of the youngest child
(b) One of the daughter's college graduation
(c) The oldest child's 50th birthday
(d) The day that the father was buried

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the chapter imply that Ruth May has become?

2. What becomes Orleanna's only purpose after Ruth May's death?

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

4. What did Ruth May see in Eeban Axelroot's plane?

5. What does Leah wish that she could give to her father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How has the Congo changed the Prices?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Orleanna do after Ruth May's death? Why does she do this?

10. How is Orleanna changed when she finally gets up from bed? Who does she influence?

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